| 10th July 2012 |
| Part 1 of 2 - Daylight Part 2 here There is this little area right near the center of Shanghai, just south of the People's-Square-Bund-Skyscraper area where you can still see real Shikumen housing - or how real Shikumen houses look like when left to rot for decades. Most of these have no heating, barely electricity and no running water connection. Having withdrawn all support for renewal years ago, the Shanghai government obviously has no other choice other than relocating all locals to beautifully new and centrally heated building developments an hour or two outside of the city, demolish the entire neighbourhood and improving the area with some more Rising Sun Manhattan Apartments and one or the other parking lot. Sorry for that rant, but, man. Seriously. |
