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  • Urbanism
  • 14 Jul 2025
  • 8 min

Tall Stories 467: Shanghai’s urban transformation

The port of Shanghai, old illustration. Created by Grandsire after Trevise, published on Le Tour du Monde, Paris, 1860; Shutterstock ID 82567048; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

  • The Urbanist
  • Urbanism
  • 8 min

Tomas Pinheiro explores how the millennia-old settlement of Shanghai has grown into China’s most populous urban area.

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