In this Guardian Cities article, see incredible images of how the Pearl River Delta - the world's largest continuous urban region that encompasses Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Shenzhen - has transformed from 1979 to now....
The Guardian documents the astonishing, controversial rise of Shenzhen, an "unremarkable Chinese settlement that ‘smelled of countryside’" to become to world's largest megalopolis.
"Shenzhen, a city of around 11 million people, is now merely one elem...