Shanghai Future: Modernity Remade

by Anna Greenspan

China is in the midst of the fastest and most intense process of urbanization the world has ever known, and Shanghai -- its biggest, richest and most cosmopolitan city -- is positioned for acceleration into the twenty-first century.

Yet, in its embrace of a hopeful -- even exultant -- futurism, Shanghai recalls the older and much criticized project of imagining, planning and building the modern metropolis. Today, among Westerners, at least,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190206691
• ISBN13: 9780190206697
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 8.9"