Photos of China: Shanghai Old Town

This is a collection of images of the Shanghai old town taken in spring 2007. The old town is being demolished rapidly to make room for new apartment complexes. At the same time, parts of the old town are being commercialized and transformed into some kind of upscale, "disneyfied" version of Old Shanghai complete with Starbucks, souvenir shops, and hordes of tourists. We didn't see a single tourist during our lengthy trips into the "real" old town (shown on most of the photos), though.

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Street in the old town, Shanghai	Ducks hanging outside a restaurant in the old town, Shanghai	Ducks hanging outside a restaurant in the old town, Shanghai
Motor-scooter with built-in gloves, Shanghai old town	Crumbling old buildings in the Shanghai old town	Crumbling old buildings in the Shanghai old town
Street in the old town, Shanghai	Street in the old town, Shanghai	Street in the old town, Shanghai
Buildings with wooden balconies in the Shanghai old town	People in the old town, Shanghai	People in the old town, Shanghai
Street in the old town, Shanghai	Street in the old town, Shanghai	Street in the old town, Shanghai
Street in the commercialized, gentrified part of the Shanghai old town	Tourist crowds in the commercialized part of the Shanghai old town	Street in the old town, Shanghai
Street in the old town, Shanghai	Street in the old town, Shanghai	Electrical cables on a building in the Shanghai old town
Man washing dishes outside a building in the Shanghai old town

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