"Wallpaper City Guides" not only suggest where to stay, eat, and drink, but what the tourist passionate about design might want to see, whether he/she has a week or 24 hours in the city. Featured are up and coming areas, landmark buildings in an 'Architour', design centres, and the best shops to buy items unique to that city. "Wallpaper City Guides" present travellers with a fast-track ticket to the chosen location. The edited guides offer the best, most exciting, and the most beautiful of that particular city. As well as looking beautiful, the guides are expertly designed with function as a priority, and have tabbed sections so that the tourist can easily find what they are looking for. There are maps, rate and currency cards, colour-coded parts of the city, and an easy navigational tool. They are the ultimate combination of form and function.
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'The answer to every short-breaker's dream. Small, perfectly formed - they fit into pockets of jeans or jackets - they contain almost everything one needs to know...The jewel-coloured guides look beautiful and are exquisitely designed. Even a geographically challenged dolt like me stands a chance of finding my way around Shanghai with the simple map at the back of the book.'
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Wallpaper* City Guides are compiled by the magazine's travel experts, both by in-house editors, and correspondents who actually live in the highlighted cities, providing up-to-the-minute information
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good for what it is,
By KeithSF (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Wallpaper City Guide: Shanghai (Paperback)
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...
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Great sliver,
This review is from: Wallpaper City Guide: Shanghai 2009 ("Wallpaper*" City Guides) (Paperback)
I think it is a really great guide to exploring a new place. Use it as an idea book. Though,it covers very few realistic options for a new city.
What neighbourhoods are these shops or lounges or restaurants or hotels in? They are in a interesting, new, and exciting part of this new place. You likely won't frequent any of the businesses in the book, unless you are fancy and rich, but it gives you a push in the right direction. I have found these books help me find parts of cities that I wouldn't have seen in the Lonely Planet. They are small and made of quality paper that standups to abuse. And, the photo/map in the cover is an interesting take on things. Wallpaper has some of the best photographers in the world in its magazine. These guide books also have extremely high grade photos throughout, as to be expected.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Write an article. Add some photos. Presto. A guidebook.,
By moth "mothnm" (Abiquiu, NM United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Wallpaper City Guide: Shanghai (Paperback)
"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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