Shanghai plans an underground park

SHANGHAI: While the city is digging deeper to make room for more metro lines, shops and public shelters, it is expected to welcome something truly ecological in the near future its first underground park.

Local architects have already begun working on the project. If it proves feasible, a green park covering hundreds of square meters will be built beneath the city in three years, the first of its kind in the entire country.

The park will not only consist of grass lawns and green vegetation, but also winding streams, according to Shu Yu, deputy director of the Shanghai Urban Underground Space Development Institute, and a researcher involved in the ecological project.