Shanghai by me

[kasasaw]

nice pics..

[El_Greco]

They are better than that Id say!

[Pansori]

Thank you gentlemen. It's not really my pics that make it good, I'm a mediocre photographer (I go for quantity over quality). It's the city really. Let's not forget this by any means is one of the largest, most fascinating and interesting cities in the world which makes many other cities of entire continents looks like obscure villages. I think El Greco could produce an unmatched photo tour if he only would bother to get there with his camera. Shanghai is an absolute paradise for urban photo opportunities of any kind. And its big. It would take months, maybe years to actually get to know places.

[Pansori]

I shall continue the photo tour

View towards Fuzhou road and the Oriental Pearl Tower from People's Square
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[Pansori]

Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall. This is a must for everyone interested in urban development who is visiting Shanghai

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Reconstruction of The Bund
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Shanghai scale model
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[Pansori]

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Pudong Airport (present situation)
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Pudong Airport expansion
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[Pansori]

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Hongqiao Hub
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[Pansori]

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Back to the street
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[Pansori]

Continued with photos

Near People's Square
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Shanghai has many buildins with round corners. A very clear feature of Art Deco architecture
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[Pansori]

Continental Emporium building in East Nanjing Road. The building was designed by Zhuang Jun and built in 1932. Clearly one of tha main landmarks of Nanjing Road which is the popular shopping street of Shanghai
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A huge LED display mounted onn a corner of a building in Nanjing Lu
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[Pansori]

I thought this is how you write "Škoda" in Chinese... but Google translates it as "Shanghai Volkswagen"... wtf? What about "斯柯达" then?
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[Pansori]

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Apple Store in East Nanjing Road
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[Pansori]

I'm not sure who these people were but my guess is tourists from the countryside?
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Metro line 2 at East Nanjing Road station. I'll be going one stop to Lujiazui. This is going to be the first time I'll be seeing Pudong from the street level. How exciting!
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[Pansori]

Continued in Lujiazui, Pudong

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Finally, I got to see the main skyscraper icons of Shanghai. A big tick put in my "must-see list" . Too bad weather was a little cloudy. But it's ok because I'll come back to Lujiazui later when the sky will be brighter
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[Pansori]

A rather nice skyscraper spot. Three absolutely striking supertalls right above you
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From there the only way is up to the 474m high observatory which upon completion was world's tallest but was overtaken by Canton Tower observatory in 2011. View of Century Avenue, the core avenue of Pudong
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Pudong
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Jin Mao seen through the glass floor
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[Pansori]

Shanghai is a massive sea of communal highrise blocks. It looks absolutely huge. Unlike some other 'big' cities with never-ending sea of suburban one-storey houses, Shanghai (as well as other major cities in China) does look like a city not just in the central areas but also 20km away from them
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The (fairly) new elevated pedestrian crossing in Lujiazui central spot
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View towards Hongkou district (I'll be getting there later)
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[Pansori]

The amont of highrise buildings in Shanghai is simply staggering. What is even more staggering that almost everything there was built over the past 30 years. In effect the entire city was demolished and re-built with only fractions of old buildings surviving including a decent amount of heritage buildings

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[ProdayuSlona]

These are great pictures! Thanks!

[khoojyh]

thank you for provide such a meaningful photo. well done !!!

[VECTROTALENZIS]

Originally Posted by Pansori

The amont of highrise buildings in Shanghai is simply staggering. What is even more staggering that almost everything there was built over the past 30 years. In effect the entire city was demolished and re-built with only fractions of old buildings surviving including a decent amount of heritage buildings

Not 30 but about 20 years. Shanghai didn't get permission to develop until about 1990. So Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Zhuhai and some other places in the south got a 10 year head-start while the rest of China was comparably sleeping until about the early 1990s. After Deng Xiaoping's southern tour in Guangdong in 1992 he permitted the reforms and policies in the economic zones to be copied to the rest of China. Only since then the REAL serious economic growth too off. So the whole of China has really only developed in about 20 years with Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and some other cities being the exception.