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December 10, 2013
26 years of growth, showing Shanghai then and now.
Posted by gerardvanderleun at December 10, 2013 12:21 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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That's our wealth being piled up there, or perhaps our former wealth.
Posted by: BillH at December 10, 2013 2:10 PM
Anybody got one for Detroit?
Posted by: Ed at December 10, 2013 3:12 PM
That's astounding.
Posted by: David McKinnis at December 10, 2013 4:18 PM
The US used to be like that.
The Empire State bldg took about 13 months.
Now, it would take longer than that to get a building permit.
Posted by: ghostsniper at December 10, 2013 5:50 PM
ghostsniper: "The US used to be like that."
Yep. Thanks to EPA, OSHA, Dept. of Labor, and myriad other bureaucracies we cannot even repair our infrastructure on a decent schedule. The mobilization for WWII could not be repeated with today's rules and regs. :-(
Posted by: Jimmy J. at December 10, 2013 7:52 PM
Anybody got one for Detroit?
Just run it in reverse, and it'll look close enough.
Posted by: waltj at December 11, 2013 7:53 AM