Discovery of The Basic Geo-Social Golden-Ratio Triangle in the City Landscape of Shanghai

Abstract

Shanghai [Chinese: 上海] is the largest city by population in the People's Republic of China, and the largest city proper by population in the world. Located in the Yangtze River Delta in East China, Shanghai sits at the mouth of the Yangtze River in the middle portion of the Chinese coast. [1, 2] The nostalgic western bank of Huangpu River, [Chinese: 黃浦江, 3] the Bund [Chinese: 外滩, 4, Fig. 1, Fig. 2, Fig. 3] containing places such as the Customs House [Chinese: 江海关, 5] built in 1927, was the generation centre of countless stories. Since modernization of China began in late 1970s, The Oriental Pearl Tower [Chinese: 东方明珠塔, 6, 7, Fig. 1, Fig. 3 ] stands out as the symbol of modernization drive, located on the Eastern bank of Huangpu River, opposite the Bund, leading a significant development towards the East of the city, even to the seafront where Pudong International Airport is now located. The Peoples’ Square and Peoples’ Park [Chinese: 上海人民广场 , 上海人民公园, 8, Fig. 4] , which are about 1.5 km to the West of The Bund, are regarded as the prime venue hinging on peoples’ sense of belonging to Shanghai, and inheritance of excellent virtues from the older generations. Now the permanent China Pavilion which stands since the World Expo 2000, Shanghai, China, [Chinese:世界2000年上海世博會中國館] upholds the strength of sustaining world-wide friendship and leadership, towards world peace and human advancement. The Peoples’ Park and the Peoples’ Square, the Oriental Pearl Tower, The China Pavilion of Expo 2000, all located on both sides of Huangpu River, Shanghai, are therefore Geo-Social icons of the well-esteemed foundation and heritage of people of Shanghai, drive of modernization, and international friendship, harmony, and integration of sustainable development world-wide. Yet it is discovered that these three Geo-Social icons are the three corners of a geo-social basic golden-ratio right-angled triangle of the city of Shanghai, an amazing gift from the heaven, as Chinese people of old would say. What a legend for Shanghai it is, as reported in this paper!