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Town: Shanghai, China

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Shanghai Public Library (Deborah Fallows)
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  • Libraries

A Visit to the Shanghai Public Library

  • Deborah Fallows
  • April 22, 2015
Aging manuscripts share the building with makerspaces.
On the Albert Speer-esque Century Avenue in Pudong, Shanghai yesterday: young passers-by in front of government poster reminding them that Chinese values include filial piety and respect for age (James Fallows)
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  • Economic Development

More on Nice Downtowns: Do They Just Happen? Or Are They Made?

  • James Fallows
  • April 21, 2015
Tampa has kept trying to revive its downtown, and has kept failing. Asheville has been wildly successful—but was it even trying at all?
Pike Place market in Seattle, not far from site of the original Starbucks and a core element of the city's successful downtown (Wikimedia commons)
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  • Economic Development

Nice Downtowns: How Did They Get That Way?

  • James Fallows
  • April 19, 2015
"Visitors think, 'That's just how Seattle is.' But it wasn't." Lessons via places ranging from Fresno to Shanghai.

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