Some of Old Shanghai beats the dust:
Paul French: 5 historic Shanghai buildings we lost in 2009 - Shanghaiist.
Paul French: 5 historic Shanghai buildings we lost in 2009 - Shanghaiist.
2009 saw a flurry of activity across the city from construction
projects moving ahead apace to a general ‘tarting up’ of housing and
streets prior to the EXPO. Never was so much cream paint slapped on so
many walls at such speed. From Hongqiao to the Bund, the nether regions
of Yangpu and the heartlands of Hongkou, the men in yellow hats have
been feverishly employed. Inevitably, as Shanghai’s grand planners fall
before the altar of the supposedly new, some old and valued friends
were reduced to rubble this year and will be seen no more:
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