\u672a\u6765\u90fd\u5e02\u65b9\u5706 : \u4e0a\u6d77\u5e02\u57ce\u5e02\u89c4\u5212\u56fd\u9645\u65b9\u6848\u5f81\u96c6\u4f5c\u54c1\u9009. The City in Future: 1999-2002

(Architecture) (China) Xia, Liqing, Ed. 未来都市方圆 : 上海市城市规划国际方案征集作品选. The City in Future: 1999-2002. [Shanghai]: Shanghai Urban Planning Administrative Bureau, 2003. Square (29 cm), 343 pp.; profusely illus. in color from various maps and planning documents, texts and captions in English and Mandarin; blind-stamped cloth, orig. DJ present, small split at front corner, otherwise very good. Fascinating presentation volume of international design competitions commissioned at the millennium by the Party Central Committee for The Comprehensive Plan of Shanghai (1999-2020), a “round of urban planning and environmental construction” that will create “an international metropolis with harmonious ecology, beautiful landscape, and great vigor and vitality.” Includes the winning master plans for the river waterfront, the EXPO 2010 site, the harbor, the Suzhou River (inner ring road), the rail network, People's Square, and strategic development studies and urban planning for various suburbs and new towns. Design objectives balancing economic, residential, social, cultural, and ecological aspects are discussed at length. Illustrations primarily from digital mapping programs, documenting changing technological capacities at the turn of the century. OCLC records 2 US institutional holdings: Kansas and UNC-Chapel Hill. $350