Shanghai Ghost Towns: Gaoqiao Village (高桥镇)

Gaoqiao Village is a microcosm of all architecture in mainland China. I was expecting to find another Pujiang, that is to say, an ancient village gasping for breath as modern development chokes it to death. Instead you’ve got everything here from the Qing Dynasty all the way up to modern steel and glass skyscrapers. First [...]

Ghost Towns of Shanghai: Pujiang Village (浦江镇)

The year is 2010. The city government and developers aka. Godzilla, are busy laying waste to every remaining historical building while shitting out the shiny soullessness of shoddily built office and condo towers at every intersection. An epic tragedy worthy of a film or at least some pixels on my memory card. So I hopped [...]