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New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room. Things move fast in this town which is both new and old, Western and Eastern, Adidas and Adidos, Adadis, Admimas, Daiads, and Odidoss. Blink, and another lane lined with hundred-year-old shikumen--each a home to handfuls of families--is bulldozed. In its place, here comes a high-rise rising higher than the one put up yesterday, a clothesline and an illegal satellite dish poking out from each window (a twenty-eight-hundred-square-foot four-bedroom, four-bathroom rental at the luxurious Richgate: $8,572 a month). Shanghai has the world's fastest intra-city ...