Shanghai, tra Cina e Mondo. Eccezione e regola di una città esemplare

There is a place in Shanghai where the disorientation for the metropolis’ huge dimensions comes with the awareness – impacting and almost physical – of the issues of contemporary urban development. It’s a feeling you can apply to the large conurbations of South-east Asia and it has one of its most striking study-cases here: Shanghai is the emblem of the phenomenon that an important critic of the cities, as Cesare De Seta (also in his recent book published by Rizzoli La città. Da Babilonia alla Smart City), calls global city.