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[quote=COOLSPRINGS,290682]But Shanghai is nothing if not ambitious. This is a city of big dreams. Ever allergic to inactivity and resting on its laurels, Shanghai barely had time for the dust to settle from the massive modernization and reconstruction of the 1990s (which New York Times writer Ian Buruma hailed as "perhaps the greatest urban transformation since Baron Haussmann rebuilt Paris in the 19th century") before it won the bid in 2002 to host the 2010 World Expo, and embarked on a new phase of building that will once again transform the city. City planners promise that Shanghai will soon be not only China's financial and manufacturing capital, but its "green" capital as well. Already, Shanghai has converted Nanjing Lu to a pedestrian mall, remodeled the Bund and its promenade, revitalized many avenues and villas in the old French Concession, and created 1,800 hectares (4,500 acres) of greenway with trees and lawns (an area equivalent to 4,000 football fields). Also on tap is the Huangpu River Renovation Project, covering 20km (12 miles) of downtown riverfront on both shores, whereby the harbor will be transformed by green corridors, an elliptical canal, a maritime museum, marinas, riverside parks, and new housing estates. The latest environmental project is the most ambitious yet: the building of an eco-city -- the first self-sustaining city in the world which does no appreciable damage to the environment -- that will be home to half a million people on the wetlands of Dongtan on Chongming Island at the mouth of the Yangzi River.

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