Shanghai's skyline from a distance works (in fact it's mega cool), but I imagine that up close it kinda blows. Is it a lot of open patches of unused grass and dirt with motorways everywhere? That kind of urban landscape can suck my balls. Someone answer my question.
It's where Dubai fails epicly as well: It's just a few nice glass structures rising up in a nice district (canals and shit), but away from that is sand. That's not urban and it's not cool, because it's just show. I mean, come on.
In 25 years it's gonna be an expensive looking public housing project. Compare Dubai to something similar.