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Copyright: Henrik Kloppenborg (kloppenborg)
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| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2006-07-01 |
| Exposure: f/5.6, 1/30 seconds |
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| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2008-04-22 5:29 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
Another Shanghai sunset. Here from the groundfloor around Xintiandi, a newly renovated area of old-style shikumen neighbourhood, which - in typical Shanghai fashion - has been turned into a leisure area with foreign and Chinese cafés, shops, bars, clubs and restaurants.
The motive is the "silent mastodonts"; the skyscrabers, which stand as visible symbols of Shanghai's rapid spatial transformation. Inner-city soil is extremely valuable in the city, and the principle of transformation (destruction of the old, building the nwe) is that of economic profitability. |
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