China Seizes Lead in Skatepark Race
Core-e-spondent Jason from LOE Design in Shanghai reports in with spy photos of the (soon-to-be) world's largest skatepark:
It is one of those leapfrog moments, like where an undeveloped country skips the expense of building a land line network and moves directly to cell phone technology...
China, rather than spending a few generations developing a middle class, fostering a culture and economy based on recreational expenditures such as swimming pools, building an educational and social system which disenfranchises their children, ignoring any resulting underground culture as it comandeers and subverts those same symbols of class but eventually embracing a clean-scrubbed, de-politicized version as an extreme sport, just went ahead and built the rad-est f#*'ing skatepark ever.
Designed by Convic More pics at the Shanghai Showdown site