View from Shanghai: more than any other metropolis, Shanghai has become synonymous with the most brutal kind of urban development.(view)
From: The Architectural Review
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Date: 12/1/2004
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Author: Turnbull, Robert
Chosen in the late '80s to drive China's economic progress, Shanghai responded with unprecedented determination. By 2000, half of the buildings from the late '40s, the vast majority colonial, had been razed to make way for 200 000 high-rises and the city became the world's largest construction site. Shanghaiese flocked to see a new scale model of their future city at the Urban Planning Exhibition Hall only to find their homes had been erased from history.
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