Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden （West Gate）
Former stone quarry reborn as a landscaped garden of exposed cliffs, a mirror pool, and cliffside walkways.
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This guide to the Chenshan Botanical Garden's west gate tells how three decades of stone quarrying left Chenshan Hill with a deep, scarred gash, abandoned after the mine closed. It follows landscape architect Yufan Zhu's unusual decision, made as Shanghai prepared for the 2010 World Expo, about what to do with that wound rather than hide it. The garden today spans fifteen thousand plant varieties across roughly thirty theme gardens built around the old quarry site.
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