Daning Lingshi Park （West Gate）
Sprawling landscaped park built around an artificial hill and lake, with waterfalls, causeways and themed gardens.
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This guide to Daning Lingshi Park in Shanghai explains how planners on this flat river delta built an artificial hill nineteen meters tall, said to be the tallest in the city, then added a pool near the summit that spills downward through waterfalls and rockeries toward the lake below. It traces how two older neighborhood parks, split by a branch of the Pengyue River, were merged into one landscape of lakes, causeways and themed gardens renamed Lingshi. Listen for how the water was switched on only after the hill itself was finished.
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