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This paper seeks to provide a small contribution to urban development by looking beyond the narrow depiction of Shanghai’s growth as the relationship of global capital and local state power. The central hypothesis of this paper is that urban development is influenced not only by economic and political forces but also by how these two variables culminate in ideas about optimal urban environments.
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Former Director, Canada–China Business Council, Margaret Cornish
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Director, Shanghai Office, Canada–China Business Council, Helena Chen
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Director, Shanghai Office, United States–China Business Council, Julie Walton
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Director of Protocol, Madrid Pavilion, Olivier Starckx
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Deputy Pavilion Director, United Kingdom Pavilion, David Martin
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Pavilion Director, Slovenia Pavilion, Linda Belina
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Pavilion Director, Canada Pavilion, Barbara Helm
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Pavilion Director, Montreal Pavilion, Louis Dussault
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Deputy Commissioner General, Canada Pavilion, Wayne Scott
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Deputy Commissioner General, Australia Pavilion, Peter Sams
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Deputy Commissioner General, Italy Pavilion, Maria AssuntaAccili
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Commissioner General, Croatia Pavilion, IvicaMaričić
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Commissioner General, Japan Pavilion, Hiroshi Tsukamoto
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Consul General of Canada in Shanghai, Nadir Patel
Informal Meetings and Discussions
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Director of Protocol, Canada Pavilion, Evan Medley
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Director of Special Events, Canada Pavilion, James Mitchell
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Director of Communications, Canada Pavilion, Jennifer Price
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Executive Director, Canada Pavilion, Robert Myers
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Executive Director, Canada China Business Council, Sarah Kutulakos
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Deputy Commissioner General, USA Pavilion, Tom Cooney
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Commissioner General, New Zealand Pavilion, Mike Pattison
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Commissioner General, Canada Pavilion, Mark Rowswell
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Representative of the Québec Government in Shanghai, Francois Gaudreau
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Former Representative of the Government of British Columbia in Shanghai, John McDonald
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Director General, North Asia Bureau, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Phil Calvert
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Assistant Deputy Minister, Department of Canadian Heritage, Government of Canada, Nicole Bourget
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Skogstad-Stubbs, M. (2016). Building Shanghai as an International City: Exchange of Ideas. In: Cao, H., Paltiel, J. (eds) Facing China as a New Global Superpower. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-823-6_9
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