Taming Shanghai's Sprawl

摘要

In The Bitterly Cold Days Before ThernChinese New Year, bulldozers worked overtime on the site of last year's World Expo in Shanghai, tearing down all but five of the 54 giant pavilions that once cluttered the i,3O5-acre (528 hectare) site on both banks of the Huangpu River that bisects the city. The demolition isn't an end but the beginning of a project far more ambitious than a mere World's Fair.rnThe Shanghai government trumpeted the "Better city, better life" theme of the Expo far and wide. Now it has pledged to transform its chaotic sprawl into something more livable for its 19 million or so inhabitants within 10 years. The effort is more than propaganda.