ABSTRACT
The contrast in scale to a European planning proposal suggested a focus on ground strategy rather than the detail of the architecture. The competition brief offered a site of 30 hectares and a requirement to accommodate 10,000 units of housing. There was little context other than an arterial road on the eastern edge, a rail line and station on the western edge and a river on the southern edge. The site was triangulated and at its northern point the peri-urban edge pointed towards the city of Shanghai. Within a planning culture that conspicuously lacks any
