Since 1992, when Deng Xiaoping famously declared Shanghai the -Head of the Dragon, - effectively making it China's economic motor, the city's housing developments have multiplied with breathtaking speed: entire districts have been demolished, residents relocated and numerous districts selected for demolition and redevelopment. Foreign companies have also flooded the city, inscribing its surfaces with the imagery of Western consumerism that so rapidly became an integral part of China's economic fabric--and accelerating its visual transformation. This two-volume slipcased book documents an...