Is Shanghai About To Lose Its Modernist Face?

Shanghai is experiencing a building boom like few other cities have ever seen, and within a few years, the entire city will be utterly transformed. “Many feel, though, that what Shanghai is losing is even more vital than what it will gain. Shanghai was China’s first, and remains its most distinctive, experiment in modern urbanism, and conservationists say that much of what made it so special in the last century will soon fall victim to the wrecking ball.”