China - Shanghai - Skyline at Night to Pudong

The Oriental Pearl Tower (left) and Jin Mao Building (right) rise up, glowing in the distance in Pudong, Shanghai, and China’s centralised financial district. Skyline across the low-rise traditional Chinese housing in the foreground of Nanpudaqiao through the high-rise developments, offices and apartment buildings right across downtown, this vision of capitalism and modernity against traditional sums up the colossal development of this ‘Paris of the East’ as Shanghai was once known. In ten years the city has gone from 2-3 story housing as far as the eye can see to this rising metropolis. So much air pollution and light pollution from buildings, construction, cars and lighting up makes the whole city glow.

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Copyright: Mike Kemp
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Contained in galleries: 2005

The Oriental Pearl Tower (left) and Jin Mao Building (right) rise up, glowing in the distance in Pudong, Shanghai, and China’s centralised financial district. Skyline across the low-rise traditional Chinese housing in the foreground of Nanpudaqiao through the high-rise developments, offices and apartment buildings right across downtown, this vision of capitalism and modernity against traditional sums up the colossal development of this ‘Paris of the East’ as Shanghai was once known. In ten years the city has gone from 2-3 story housing as far as the eye can see to this rising metropolis. So much air pollution and light pollution from buildings, construction, cars and lighting up makes the whole city glow.