Shanghai Kaleidoscopic City

The city and its architecture are at a turning point: climate change, smart grids, sprawling megacities, cognitive capitalism; so many issues that impact the daily lives of millions of people. Architecture is trying to adapt to the various technical advances, but much remains to be done to ensure that it does not lose its qualities, its ambiences, the finesse of its lines and its living spaces. The book recounts the highlights of the encounters between two very different cultures - Chinese and European - and the work of teachers and students, architects, engineers, urban planners, geographers and psychosociologists. It is a reflection on the metropolis of today as the result of a tangle of networks, fabrics, and disparate architectural objects, offering the image of a kaleidoscopic city, both in its spatial reality and in its practices and perceptions.