Spatial transformation in Shanghai: the strategy, institutional arrangement and planning procedures - the case of EXPO 2010

Within the background of post-industrialization and globalization, Shanghai is one of the initial Chinese cities to make their reflections. Also it is the one-and-only city of the developing countries which ever hosted EXPO, thus it was making the great endeavor in order to make itself as a paradigm. According to this case, we would witness the “big event” was used as a trigger of urban regeneration and development, the vision of “pre-post” strategy has become the foundation of the financial support, the “urban development corporation” - a public and quasi-public partnership was set up to implement the strategies, and the interactions between the administration and the other actors such as experts made the planning procedure more effective.