ABSTRACT
With the intensification of globalization, the 1990s witnessed increasingly explicit competition among major cities in the Asia-Pacific region in claiming economic dominance. As well as marketing their places as business hubs for the regional headquarters of multinationals, and for the specialized corporate services associated with them, local governments in these cities have been actively involved in a new round of development of urban and regional infrastructure. This comprises telematics infrastructure in addition to conventional infrastructure such as that related to transportation (Warf 1995). This chapter considers these trends in relation to one Asian-Pacific megacity: Shanghai.
