Shanghai Future Modernity Remade

Name: Shanghai Future Modernity Remade
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ISBN: 9780190206680

ISBN-10: 0190206683

ISBN-13: 9780190206680

Edition: 2014

Authors: Anna Greesnpan

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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 city00 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, the very idea of the futuristic city -- with its multilayered skyways, domestic robots and flying cars -- seems doomed to the realm of nostalgia, the sadly comic promise of a future that failed to materialize.Shanghai Future maps the city of tomorrow as it…

Book details

List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/15/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 8.60" wide x 5.40" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.034