PUBLIC MARKS with tags chine & Shanghai

Although some were mere figments of imagination, most of these calendar girls were famous heroines, ladies from history, popular singers, models, and actresses of the day.

362 Longchang Road (near Pingliang Road), Yangpu district, Shanghai,  is also called Longchang apartments. This apartment complex is a Roman Coliseum-looking square-shaped compound, 5 story buildings surround a spacious courtyard in the middle which housed over 250 families. Each story of the building has a long public corridor, behind the corridor are various sized dwellings, many residents also built rooms in the hallways.

'Neighbours take care of each other'

A resident of the Longchang apartments, Shanghai, takes Dan Chung on a hypnotic tour of his block. Built by the British before the creation of the new China and a one-time military compound for the Japanese, the apartments have since fallen into disrepair

yeah, amazing change in only 20 years!!

The transformation of Shanghai is unique in its speed, scale, and politics. Shanghai Transforming Blog is an on-going project to continue to develop a picture of the changing city. Shanghai Transforming is a research project, a publication edited by Iker Gil of MAS Studio and was exhibited at the Chicago Architecture Foundation and at the School of Architecture Design at Virginia Tech.

In this series of pictures, the two photographers - father and son - present Shanghai between fiction and reality as the ‘city of tomorrow’. The focal point of their photographic work is the architecture of the city’s streets, a critical investigation and analysis encompassing the subject of urban landscape. In a long-term project begun in November 2002, they have been documenting the metropolis Shanghai as an urban composition, a man-made architectural living space and enviroment of unprecedented and unimaginably gigantic dimensions. The resulting images are of immense visual beauty.

1 seconde de film égale 15 minutes en temps réel.

On the third floor of the Shanghai Urban Planning Museum, there is what probably is the world’s largest scale model of a city. The room-sized model of central Shanghai in 2020, as envisioned by the urban planners, fills an area larger than 100 square meters (1,000 square feet)

Entre cette ville et ces gens qui finalement travaillent bcp trop, font vraiment la gueule en semaine, entre ce boulot qui n'arrive meme plus a te surprendre, tout juste a t'enerver, entre question pour un champion sur TV5 Asie et 1heures de metro quotidien... tu te dis que 2ans en chine c'est sympa mais ca a quelques limites...

Carl understood the essential truth of the ex-pat experience in China -- you don’t change China, China changes you -- and if you don’t like it then leave.