TY - BOOK AU - Gil,Iker TI - Shanghai transforming: the changing physical, economic, social and environmental conditions of a global metropolis. SN - 9788496954663 AV - NA1547.S5 G55 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - European Union PB - Actar KW - Urbanization KW - China KW - Shanghai KW - Local KW - Shanghai (China) KW - Environmental conditions KW - 21st century KW - Social conditions KW - Economic conditions N1 - Collected essays; Text in English; Includes bibliographical references; Contents: 20 Physical Transformation Maps, Charts and Graphs -- 66 Shanghai Robert Venturi + Denise Scott Brown -- 72 Shanghai’s Spectacles Sharon Haar -- 76 Urbanizing China Peter G. Rowe -- 80 Disaggregating the Global Economy: Shanghai Saskia Sassen -- 86 Economic Transformation Maps, Charts and Graphs -- 150 Nostalgia Haolun Shu -- 152 Shanghai Transforming Juan de Dios Perez -- 156 Shanghai Back Lot Greg Girard -- 160 Close-Up: Shanghai? Jonathan Miller -- 170 Social Transformation Maps, Charts and Graphs -- 204 From Lilong to International Community Xiangning Li + Xiaochun Zhang -- 212 Boys of “Long-Tang” Weigang Qiu -- 214 Towards a Precipitous Typology Silas Chiow -- 218 Environmental Transformation Maps, Charts and Graphs -- 250 Poles Sol Madridejos + Juan Carlos Sancho -- 258 Chongming Island: Greening Shanghai in the 21st-Century Philip Enquist -- 266 Contributors -- 267 Acknowledgments -- 268 Illustration Credits -- ER -