A new city on the bleak wetlands of Dongton. Does it sound impossible? True, bleak wetlands seem an unlikely place for a neo-industrial revolution.
‘But, if the project being planned for its muddy shores is successful, it could arguably change the course of global economic development,” The Guardian reports from the mouth of the Yangtse River, China.
Yes, the project of a city on wetlands is challenging, but, will it not damage the environment? The project claims that it “does no appreciable damage to the earth’s environment.” Known simply as Dongtan, the city is claimed be part of a much larger, “futuristic plan to develop thousands of square miles of the mouth of the Yangtse.”
