| Wallpaper City Guide: Shanghai 2009 ("Wallpaper*" City Guides) (Wallpaper City Guides (Phaidon Press)) |  | Author: Editors Of Wallpaper Magazine
Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc.
Category: Book
Buy New: $9.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 270375
Media: Paperback
Edition: Ill
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
ISBN: 0714849065
Dewey Decimal Number: 915
EAN: 9780714849065
ASIN: 0714849065
Publication Date: September 1, 2008 (New: This Week)
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Product Description
Wallpaper* City Guides not only suggest where to stay, what to eat, and what to drink, but what the tourist passionate about design might want to see, whether he or she has a week or just 24 hours in the city. Some of the highlights include up-and-coming neighborhoods, an 'Architour' of landmark buildings, design centers, and the best shops to buy unique items.
Wallpaper* City Guides present travelers with a fast-track ticket to the chosen location. The tightly-edited guides offer the best, most exciting, and the most beautiful of the featured city. The guides are expertly designed with function as a priority, and they have tabbed sections so that readers can find information easily. The guides include currency rate information, maps, and a color-coding system to help the reader navigate through different parts of the city. They are the ultimate combination of form and function.
The guides are compiled by Wallpaper* magazine experts and their extraordinary network of international correspondents. The writers have put their heads together to come up with fascinating, efficient guides for the hip, urban traveler with his or her finger on the pulse. They are truly the insider's guide to each featured city.
The first Wallpaper* City Guides were published in Fall 2006 on the occasion of Wallpaper*'s first anniversary. For more than a decade, Wallpaper* has been the first to uncover and enticingly present the best urban travel spots from across the globe. The City Guides are the perfect way to present a decade of experience in one precisely edited guide. As of Spring 2008, 60 guides are already available, with 10 new cities and 11 updated editions to come in Fall 2008.
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 Good for what it is June 26, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This guide is great for what it is-- a beautifully designed booklet pointing out the chic hotels and clubs, plus some interesting architectural oddities...the writing is sometimes clever, sometimes snarky... it's very much in line with the whole 'global-nomad/jetset' aesthetic that Wallpaper magazine is known for. It's certainly *not* meant to be a comprehensive travel/cultural guide...I personally enjoyed this book very much when I was in Shanghai; I discovered a number of interesting places but this was after I had gotten my money's worth out of my battered, dog-eared 'Lonely Planet Shanghai' book.
I'd say, buy a Rough Guide or LP for the bulk of your traveling, but the Wallpaper guides are great supplements if you're interested in contemporary art/architecture/design etc...
 Write an article. Add some photos. Presto. A guidebook. April 2, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
"Shanghai isn't Beijing," as if there is a limited amount of entertainment to be found in a commercial center like Shanghai.
The Wallpaper guide is compact and will get you through a few days in Shanghai staying at expensive hotels, hitting a few contemporary art hot spots and partying in expensive clubs and restaurants.
Instead of written description the guide has glossy photos. Nothing as practical as useful expressions, maps, bird flu precautions or written directions you can show a cab driver or how to exchange currency.
Printed out articles from the NY Times are short and seem to have more depth.
Because this guide seemed so minimal I picked up the Frommers guide to Beijing which has far more suggestions. Maybe Beijing is the more exciting city but at least I want to go there after reading the "few days in Beijing" section. Frommers has some suggestions of smaller, traditional hotels. With only a couple days in each city I want my experience to be Chinese, not global chic aesthetic. No resistance to a little bit of chic if it has a Chinese spin. That's why I picked up the guide.
There are a few fun tidbits like which room in which hotel Mao used to stay in.
Maybe this guide is enough. Some maps would be useful.
Overall, the Wallpaper guide seems thin and unenthusiastic. Maybe they do better with other cities. Maybe, like so many guidebooks, they researched by Internet and from other guidebooks instead of going to Shanghai, then compiled a glossier packaging with the photos hotels sent them. Maybe they sent the whole staff and edited until there wasn't much left.
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