From Progress to Prosperity: Creative Centralities in Shanghai

This issue has specific title: Urban StrategiesShanghai’s growth has astounded the world in speed and quantity. GDP has grown more than ten-fold in two decades, from below less than 1,000 USD per person in 1990 to more than 13,000 USD per person in 2010. This is visible in the physical profile of the city, with the booming highways, rising towers, and glitzy malls. The ‘Endless Cities’ volume announced the economic progress as represented by the city’s physical transformation: there were only twelve buildings over 80 storeys in 1980, twenty years later already 3,529, and 10,045 of such high-rises could be found in the city in the year 2005 (Burdette, 2007)