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Where Shanghai differs from Mumbai

April 3, 2008
True enough, with the cluster boom, when some fail, they do so spectacularly, as with the UDC Innovative Plaza, a creative cluster on Jiangsu Road which, failing to attract much in the way of creativity, has resorted to life as a market for light fixtures, faucets and sinks.

The New Factories (originally named Tong Le Fang, or "Total Rich Fun" in English) opened with fanfare in 2005 and still feels like a ghost town though it's been open for over two years.

Areas such as Red Town (of Shanghai Sculpture Space) have tried to keep things pumping 24 hours a day with upscale restaurants and raucous bars, but this mixed-use planning has not been wholly successful - somewhat disastrously, though many clubs have opened with a bang, they have equally spectacularly faded away into the dark of the night.

Image: A worker lays bricks along a road in Lujiazui financial district in Shanghai | Photograph: Liu Jin/AFP/Getty Images

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