If you only count people, this city is the largest in the world. Daily, Shanghai becomes the final venue for hundreds of rural workers leaving their agrarian lives for the lure of better-paying jobs and the big-city life. Row upon row of high-rise concrete towers go on for miles, devouring fields and homes along an expanding spider’s web of highways and green space at a high premium. This is new Shanghai, 25 million people and growing, a city steeped in history and people without end....
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