Shanghai: superfuturism and antiquity


Marilyn from National Geographic sez, "I think you'll love these Shanghai photos by Fritz Hoffmann in March National Geo.
It's hard to believe such a superfuturistic megacity also looks like a village from 100 years ago."

What she said. There are lots of places in the world where seamless high-tech and ancient cobblestones exist side by side, but I've never been anywhere in which you can go from one to the other so quickly as Shanghai. One moment you're on the set of Blade Runner, then you turn a corner and you're in a historical drama, with no sign of glass-and-steel in sight.

Shanghai Dreams

(Thanks, Marilyn!)