Shanghai's Metropolitan Symbiosis: Orchestrating East China's Integrated Development Historical Reconfiguration: From Colonial Port to Regional Orchestrator Shanghai's spatial influence has evolved through three distinct phases: 1. Colonial Hub (1843-1949) - Foreign concessions creating China's first urban-rural divide -
Shanghai's Metropolitan Symbiosis: Orchestrating East China's Integrated Development Historical Reconfiguration: From Colonial Port to Regional Orchestrator Shanghai's spatial influence has evolved through three distinct phases: 1. Colonial Hub (1843-1949) - Foreign concessions creating China's first urban-rural divide -