Cities on Speed - Space/Shanghai

Soon more than 550 cities world wide will have a population of more than one million. In 2030 80% of the world's population will live in cities. Megacities have traditionally been economic and political power centres but today the fastest growing cities are in developing nations. There is an acute need for new models of city planning to prevent collapses under such huge social, economic and environmental pressure. The NEW challenge is that cities today are made by citizens rather than city planners. If we are to create sustainability, it is an absolute necessity for us to understand the new modernity. Cities on Speed shows how four different megacities are dealing with this new modernity. What are the visions and the solutions and how do they affect the inhabitants?

SPACE /SHANGHAI
Shanghai is not just a city - it's an explosion of 4,000 skyscrapers, thousands of miles of highway, millions of citizens and thousands of government planners. Vast communities need to be expropriated to make way for new skyscrapers, roads and industries. The government tries to control it, the citizens try to use it but Shanghai is beyond control.