{"product_id":"analysis-of-shanghais-commerce-urbanistic-considered-von-robert-scheutz","title":"Analysis of Shanghai's Commerce - urbanistic considered","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Art - Architecture \/ History of Construction, grade: very good, Technical University of Graz (Faculty for Architekture \/ Institute City Development), language: English, abstract: The Yangtze River Delta, Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou is undergoing a radical upheaval\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprocess ¿ the dimension and the speed of Shanghai's development exceeds European\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween 1978 and 1990 about ¿3 billion were spent on urban infrastructure projects, in the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enext six years between 1991 and 1997 the investment exceeded ¿18 billion. In the early\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eeighties the construction of the whole public mass transport system started from scratch,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efollowing the strategic neglecting by the Central Government in Beijing. Today, after the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ereforms of Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin, a former mayor of Shanghai, it is said that the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecity's large construction projects are the PRC Government's 'cuddles'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2002 about 80 urban infrastructure projects with an investment of ¿6,5 billion were under\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econstruction, supporting ¿AIR TRAFFIC ¿RAIL TRAFFIC ¿ROAD TRAFFIC and ¿SHIPPING.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn my opinion the rapid changes in the transport infrastructure will change more than the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emap of the city or the mere building reality ¿ it will change the city's timescale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirstly I want to focus on the meaning of the transport issue for China's and Shanghai's\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eeconomy and competitiveness. Shanghai has a great potential, but today it lacks fluency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe PRC Central Government, with it's rising conscious of China's global role, has realized this\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efact. The new economic and political ambition has overcome stone-age Maoism of bleeding\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhite 'decadent' cities - Pudong New Area with China's stock exchange in Luijazui\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edemonstrates this ambition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe strategic position on the China Sea and the estuary of the Yangtze River enables\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShanghai to function as East Asia's main gate, both for domestic and supranational trade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe current deep water port and dredging projects combined with new road and rail\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econnections to the rest of the PRC and its neighbours create the 'right flow' for growing, like\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe comparison of the GDP and the container throughput shows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHowever China's new economic 'XIAHAI' policy (promoting entrepreneurship) separates\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eseverely from the governments restrictive social control, leading to the next issue ¿ mobility\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eund urbanization. On the one hand the improvement of the mass transport infrastructure like\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe extension of six further metro lines until 2005 increases the local mobility. Today Shanghai is\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003echaracterized by a high dense core and a low density outside core, such as the comparison\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewith London shows. [...]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783656519256\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783656519256","offer_id":39447205937245,"sku":"9783656519256","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/bf3ffdc9-755b-42bb-9260-c9eb18f4f0a2.jpg?v=1778049753","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/analysis-of-shanghais-commerce-urbanistic-considered-von-robert-scheutz","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}