PUBLIC MARKS with tag Shanghai

Appel à contribution de la revue Urbain, trop urbain N#1: Shanghai

Although some were mere figments of imagination, most of these calendar girls were famous heroines, ladies from history, popular singers, models, and actresses of the day.

362 Longchang Road (near Pingliang Road), Yangpu district, Shanghai,  is also called Longchang apartments. This apartment complex is a Roman Coliseum-looking square-shaped compound, 5 story buildings surround a spacious courtyard in the middle which housed over 250 families. Each story of the building has a long public corridor, behind the corridor are various sized dwellings, many residents also built rooms in the hallways.

'Neighbours take care of each other'

A resident of the Longchang apartments, Shanghai, takes Dan Chung on a hypnotic tour of his block. Built by the British before the creation of the new China and a one-time military compound for the Japanese, the apartments have since fallen into disrepair

Although Apple announced it would issue reservation tickets yesterday afternoon for the iPad's debut this morning, to prevent customers from rushing for them, only about 10 people were lined up for the products at 4pm yesterday, willing to wait throughout the night to be the first batch of buyers.

Ces chinois, ils n'ont rien compris à l'avenir.

yeah, amazing change in only 20 years!!

The transformation of Shanghai is unique in its speed, scale, and politics. Shanghai Transforming Blog is an on-going project to continue to develop a picture of the changing city. Shanghai Transforming is a research project, a publication edited by Iker Gil of MAS Studio and was exhibited at the Chicago Architecture Foundation and at the School of Architecture Design at Virginia Tech.

“Growing Up With Shanghai” is a series of soundwalks with young Shanghainese who were born and raised during the rapid modernization of their city in the 1980s and 1990s. These recordings capture not only their most intimate memories of the locations where they grew up, but also the progress and growth Shanghai has undergone in the past 30 years. The current sounds of Shanghai can be heard behind the dialog and also serve as an audio document for future generations of Shanghainese. All dialogue is in Shanghainese or in their local dialect.

SHANGHAI'S international Internet connections slowed significantly yesterday after earthquakes rocked Taiwan and southern Japan. It was unclear last night how long repairs might take.

Millions of Chinese Netizens were unable to connect to overseas Websites or use popular online chat tools yesterday afternoon.

Censure plus efficace que le Great Firewall of China : les câbles sous-marins en zone sismique. Tous les 3 ans ça pète.

In this series of pictures, the two photographers - father and son - present Shanghai between fiction and reality as the ‘city of tomorrow’. The focal point of their photographic work is the architecture of the city’s streets, a critical investigation and analysis encompassing the subject of urban landscape. In a long-term project begun in November 2002, they have been documenting the metropolis Shanghai as an urban composition, a man-made architectural living space and enviroment of unprecedented and unimaginably gigantic dimensions. The resulting images are of immense visual beauty.

大　阪 ←→ 上　海

1 seconde de film égale 15 minutes en temps réel.

Throwing six years into two suitcases at the moment.

I'll be back, from Bangkok, in a few days.

I'll avoid the crushing sentimentality that comes with such a move and just say thanks to all my friends, and to this great country. It's been a fascinating six -and-a-half years. I'll miss you, China. But that's for another time.

Le départ de Chine d'un chroniqueur gastronomique de référence (à Shanghai à notre époque en tout cas).

On the third floor of the Shanghai Urban Planning Museum, there is what probably is the world’s largest scale model of a city. The room-sized model of central Shanghai in 2020, as envisioned by the urban planners, fills an area larger than 100 square meters (1,000 square feet)

As we swerved around another pile of rubble and some pylons along Tianmu Rd. I asked him whether it was tougher to drive a tank in the army or to drive a cab in Shanghai ? He didn't hesitate: "driving a cab in Shanghai".