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PaD Shanghai: 3

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Popping popcorn, popped everything, you get to choose! At the end, there's a big BANG!!!! Coal fired and the spinning thing adds air to the fire.

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Browse all of PaD Shanghai here at bricoleurbanism.org

…or here on the PaD Shanghai Flickr Set

PaD Shanghai: 2

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Old men playing mahjong and cards at the side of the street - apparently they’re always here, even on (Chinese) New Year’s Day!!!

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Browse all of PaD Shanghai here at bricoleurbanism.org

…or here on the PaD Shanghai Flickr Set

Picture a Day: Shanghai 1

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Shanghai South Station platform for Hangzhou D-class bullet train - trip time 1h18m for 173km

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Having relocated to Shanghai, I hope to be getting together some interesting stuff over the next while – at the very least, I’ll attempt to post a picture a day or so, and I’ve organized it so that you can see all the photos right here on this site, or by viewing my PaD Shanghai set on Flickr.

Edit: the Chinese government just announced that construction would begin on a long-planned high speed railway corridor between Shanghai and Hangzhou, reducing the trip time to 38 minutes over a 160km route with train speeds up to 350km/hr!!! I believe the current D-class bullet trains are capable of this speed already, so it’s just a matter of building high-speed track between the two cities.