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Sinapolis est un atelier d'études et de ressources sur la ville et les environnements construits chinois. Sinapolis propose, à travers un concept original mariant expertise urbaine, diffusion des savoirs et nouveaux médias, une approche actualisée de l'urbain chinois sous ses formes les plus diverses : histoire, pratiques, acteurs, représentation, tendances, localités...

The members of the Harvard Medical School Class of '08 were exceedingly ambitious -- even by Harvard standards. Not content merely to graduate from America's top med school, a small group of them set out to found an entirely new campus of their alma mater abroad. As they looked out across a world knit together by instant communications and intercontinental travel whose center of gravity was shifting to the rising Pacific Rim, there could be only one choice: Shanghai. China's financial hub and international gateway seemed destined to blossom into the leading global city of the new century. The get-rich-quick schemer's paradise that had grabbed the world's attention as an Asian El Dorado now had its sights set on becoming a cultured and cosmopolitan Paris of the East.[...] En ligne, site consulté le : 17/08/2012 En ligne, site consulté le : 17/08/2012