"Hu and Chen have written the definitive account of Shanghais Pudong New Area. The text, supplemented by excellent maps and data graphics, documents how Deng Xiaopings bold strategy preserved and deepened Chinas 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 Chens compelling and richly illustrated biography of Shanghais 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 Dragons 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 Chinas 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 Chinas 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