Global Shanghai Remade

Richard Hu is a Professor of Urban Planning and Design at University of Canberra, Australia. He co-authored Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy (2019) and Designing the Global City: Design Excellence, Competitions and the Remaking of Central Sydney (2019). Weijie Chen is President of Pudong Planning & Architecture, Vice President of Shanghai Pudong New Area Urban Planning Association, and ex-Vice President of Shanghai Pudong New Area Urban Planning and Design Research Institute.

"Hu and Chen have written the definitive account of Shanghai’s Pudong New Area. The text, supplemented by excellent maps and data graphics, documents how Deng Xiaoping’s bold strategy preserved and deepened China’s ‘reform and opening-up’ and generated a booming new centre of finance, science, and innovation of 5 million people. Pudong can also serve as a model for other dynamic hubs in the world city network. Meticulously researched and clearly presented for a world audience, Global Shanghai Remade is a ‘must read’ for planners and policy makers interested in planning history, global cities, urban design, place making, iconic architecture, city branding, urban governance, innovation, the world economy, and urban planning with Chinese characteristics."Richard LeGates, Professor Emeritus of Urban Studies & Planning, San Francisco State University"Hu and Chen’s compelling and richly illustrated biography of Shanghai’s Pudong New Area contributes a remarkable and much needed dimension to our understanding of urban growth. Employing keen historical analysis, these authors have captured, as no others, the vivid dynamics of rapid urbanisation that propelled the ‘Dragon’s Head’ with its bright ‘Eye’ into the highest ranks of global cities."Eugenie L. Birch, Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research, University of Pennsylvania"Global Shanghai Remade is the most comprehensive and detailed analysis of the making of Pudong produced to date. Its scope deals with the finance, planning, design and construction of Pudong in an accessible manner that students of Chinese urbanisation will relish. For anyone looking to understand China’s rise as a global finance and political superpower one must appreciate the making of Pudong as a key part of the infrastructure needed to platform China’s emergence. Hu and Chen have produced the definitive study of the ambition and execution of that infrastructure. This story is key to understanding China today."Richard Marshall, International Strategy Director, Perkins+Will

• 1. The Dragon's Head  2. Makers and Making  3. Planning Greater Shanghai  4. Planning Pudong  New Area 5. The Financial City  6. The Science City  7. Urban Icons  8. City Making with Chinese Characteristics