FLIP/CITY为上海提出了一种新未来城市发展模式构想。其质疑传统类型学，重新定义组织了社区，并保证其人性化。将水平城市翻转为垂直形态，在垂直城市中植入多种功能，增加城市的密度和绿化。通过将上海大量空置未使用的空隙激活，引发多样社会活动。这是一个契合上海历史和人口，涉及经济，社会结构，生态的未来城市新类型学概念。

FLIP/CITY proposes a new urban identity for Shanghai as a model for the development of future cities. By questioning traditional typologies, FLIP/CITY redefines methods of organizing communities by preserving the human scale.

The proposal flips the horizontal cityscape to the vertical dimension. Footprints of Shanghai’s existing typologies, only visible by plane, embody the new face of the vertical city. By expressing distinct functions for its citizens, FLIP/CITY relates strongly to the human scale while simultaneously increasing density and green space at the urban scale. By expanding Shanghai up along the vertical plane unused urban voids will be activated. Proximity and numerous informal meeting spaces catalyze a vivid community life.

FLIP/CITY is a new urban typology that answers the needs of modern Shanghai, its economy, social structures and ecological plans for the future while embracing Shanghai’s rich history and the demographic of its citizens.