The undercover operation is reclaiming the city’s ‘dead spaces’
2023-03-22
A newly unveiled sports park under Yan’an Elevated Road in Changning District. Underneath the rumbling traffic on Shanghai’s elevated roads and bridges are places once forgotten and long neglected. American-Canadian journalist and urban studies activist Jane Jacobs (1916–2006) called them “dead spaces.” Dead no longer. Shanghai urban planners are nowContinue Reading