Below are snapshot of the modern skyscrapers skyline of Shanghai Metropolis - the economic capital of Modern China - the world's most modern skyscraper architecture can be found in Shanghai.
Shanghai is also China's largest city with 13 million population. It generally takes about 2 hours to drive from east to west (and north to south) for the entire Metropolis.




Shanghai Metropolis at Puxi


A section of Shanghai's Puxi



Shanghai's Pudong Financial Center - exhibiting futuristic skyscraper design, including the Eastern Pearl Building (space-station design) and Jinmao Building (on the right - like a pagoda). Shanghai is now building the world's tallest building.



The bund at night..(European-style buildings built in the 1930s)


Nanjing Road- one of the busiest shopping area of Shanghai


One of the most beautiful road in Shanghai is Century Avenue in Pudong financial district. It's like the Champselese in Paris. Century avenue is a long wide road lined with 2 rows of tree with skyscrapers on both side allowing you to have a glimpse of the beautiful architecture in Pudong district.



Transrapid Maglev (Magnetic Elevation) Train from Shanghai Airport to the city, it can go up to 430 km/hr.


Inside Shanghai's Maglev train


West bank of Shanghai

Hey, cool pictures, brought back lovely memories of Shanghai. Thanks.

Hongkong Plaza at HuaiHai Road in Shanghai (Shopping )


Shanghai Pudong Night Scene - showing Jinmao Building (in the center)


Lujiazui Finance and Trade Zone (near Pudong) - check out the futuristic modern skyscraper architecture, which is quite unique of Shanghai

The night scene of Shanghai is the most beautiful where all lightings came alive.


One of the bridges and elevated high-way in Shanghai (circulating)


Check out the spot-lighting effect in Shanghai's Pudong - spotlighting are active in special festivals in China.



Lighting effect..in Shanghai.



A night scene of Shanghai Skyline


Panorama of Shanghai City from Jinmao building

Another night scene





Check out Century Avenue with Trees in Green Lighting


National Museum in Shanghai

Skyscapers lighting..

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Nanjing Road at night.
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Check out this building with nice architecture design.


People's Square - Check out the nice building on the right.


The Bund


Lujiazui at night

Gorgeous shots of Shanghai Metropolitan.

I hope city government leave room for tree plantings,not fanatically overbuild Shanghai with skyscrapers.

ShangHai looks a lot bigger than Beijing. Surprise surprise. Beijing do seem to incorporate more Asian architecture into some of its more modern buildings though(Asian styled rooftop at the top of the skyscrapers). But don't trust me, I'm just judging by General zhao's pictures, I've never been to ShangHai to give a good overview.

Shanghai Opera House (if I'm not wrong)


Traditional Chinese Buildings in Night Scene (I quite like the way they light it up at night)






Shanghai Metropolis with traffic

(Note: the above snapshots were not taken by me. I've found those photos on the internet. I'll post my shots tonight in this thread)

Shanghai tends to be a large metropolis filled with skyscrapers towering over the entire city. Skyscrapers are esp. visible in the inner city in Puxi and Pudong region. Compared to Beijing which exhibited more traditional architecture, Shanghai is filled with modern skyscrapers, some of which are very innovative.

There are three circular elevated highways (inner circle, middle circle and outer circle) that circulate the entire metropolis. One north-south highway and one east-west highway through the city. Inner circle tends to be rather congested as it was only two lanes and was built earlier. The middle circle, which had just been completed, tend to be wider and easier to drive. The outer circle are generally passing through the industrial zones.

Skyscrapers skyline tend to be a feature of Shanghai city. But the city also had many parks, and are decorated with trees and greenary throughout the city. It generally is a good place to live, work, and enjoy.

Architecture design in Shanghai tends to be more western-oriented. There are various styles exhibiting European-style such as English, French, Spanish, Italian..and contemporary american-style design. Modern skyscrapers utilizes hi-tec theme using materials such as steel and glasses.

Below are the photos I've taken at Shanghai:











Scenes taken on the elevated highway of Shanghai metropolis- showing traffic jam

Skyscraper






Puxi at night


Pudong at night

Jinmao Building in Pudong


Pudong

Postcard-like photos of Shanghai is great and all, but every Big City has its dark side. Call me a pessimist but I wonder what its really like to live in or near Shanghai. The reason I say this is because I live very close to New York City. While from afar NYC looks magnificient, there are plenty of Graffiti, traffic, garbage, run down buildings and rusty, poorly maintained infrastructure all around. I would not want to live in NYC, housing is ridiculously expensive, work is stressful.

You can ask me man.
First, traffic, horrible. Public transports, sardine cans. Graffiti, not really. Garbage, oh yeah. Run down buildings and rusty, poorly maintained infrastructure, definitely there. Housing is ridiculously expensive, also a reality. Work is stressful, not only work is stressful, finding a job is even more stressful.

Yeah, after seeing what the cities are like, I definitely prefer a house in the suburbs. Since everyone owns a car, visiting the city every now and then is a possibility, if you don't mind the traffic. The problem with modern cities is, they all seem like big masses of Sky Scrapers with shorter old buildings all around. NOt really the kind of environment I'd like to live in. Give me a medium size town, a house, preferably near a lake or stream and we have paradise on earth.

I prefer Qingdao to Shanghai as a favorable place. But for career development, I will choose Beijing and Shanghai if ask me to pick up a Chinese city.

Shanghai suburbs = industrial wastlands, no place to buy daily items, lacking efficient public transport and horrible roads.

Shanghai looks more like New York's Manhattan rather than Tokyo. Tokyo buildings are essentially squarish, without any weird-kind of design. Also in Tokyo, there are less skycrapers. In Shanghai, the entire city is dotted and towered by skyscrapers with funny-kind of shapes and lighting effect at night.

Last time i've been to ShangHai ,last February , i noticed these "funny kind of shapes & lightning effects" that make the city definitely look more & more like Las Vegas than any other city.

There is no need to apologise for your negative opinion of Shanghai. For me, Shanghai is probably one of the cities that is not "Chinese". Especially in this forum which is dedicated to Chinese history and culture, there is hardly any in Shanghai. In Shanghai, we seem to abandon our Chinese history, culture, heritage and instead we try to adopt western culture. Just look at the numerous pubs, bars and clubs there are. We just want to follow western trends and do anything to follow this. Shanghai maybe a beautiful city with its sky line etc but outer appearance is very false and Shanghai is no exception. The people are very materialistic, money oriented and some are indeed, arrogant and snobbish, because it is Shanghai, the richest and most modern city in China, the appreciation and respect given to it by so many in the west has increased its profile in the world. So many prostitutes, so many beggars and the air quality is dreadful. Shanghai represents
how capitalism with Chinese characteristics has gone terribly wrong. It is so rich yet 90% of the rest of the country is very poor. The gap between poor and rich is very reflected in Shanghai. Everyone here seems busy with making money, no morals nor virtues hardly exists here, you have the women hanging in bars and clubs looking for their western men, what twisted and naive things else do they do ? AIDS is rising fast here followed by raising divorce rates.
Why is there shops selling CNY10,000 handbags and clothes here but for some, they earn CNY 1000 a month here ?
Why are there so many taxies at 2 am in the morning ???
It is just a city of sex, money and power. It is sad because the city can be better. Despite its slogan of better city, better life, this can only be true if you are rich and a western expat here/

Urm, but when the other option is everyone equally poor, I'd rather this.

Shanghai was a wonderful place to visit, and I wouldn't mind living there for a couple of years. I have to agree though, I'd rather settle in a home next to a stream or lake with the mountains behind me. It may seem cliche and trendy Feng Shui, but such an enviroment really calms me.

Here's some pics I took while in Shanghai:


Looking at the Jin Mao tower and the IFC building from the Pearl TV Tower


The Pearl TV Tower from a Huangpu river cruise boat


The west side of the Huangpu River


I wouldn't want this guy's job


Nanjing Lu, looking west the No. 1 Department Store


The Peace Hotel from the Huangpu River


The Customs House


Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (now Shanghai
Municipal People's Government) building

South side of the Shanghai Museum


Yuyuan Garden


Xujiahui Cathedral


Longhua Pagoda


More views of Longhua Padoga

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View of Shanghai Museum looking south from People's Square


A guy collecting recycleables


A recycling collection spot near the Yuyuan Garden in the Old Town


Fuxing Park in the French Concession during the afternoon


Some Weiqi players at Fuxing Park

A coffee mini-van that I just had to buy some java from


Sun Yatsen's home


Zhou Enlai's home


An afternoon on Metro Line One


A bus in downtown Shanghai


The site of the first Chinese communist party congress





Bird Market along Tibet Lu


Antique Market near Tibet Lu


Street just northeast of the Shanghai Railroad Station

I love Shanghaï and its modern and impressive architecture! and I believe that we all took the same pictures of it.

Nevertheless, I keep in memory my long walks in the old town, the place where I could meet a part of the true China I was looking for.
Sometimes, I am wondering if these traditional houses, and their inhabitants are still living there or in one of those dreadful towers they are building to rehouse them once their home have been demolished...

Will this old town be alive in the coming years ?


Shanghai, with a population of 14 million people, looks onto the river Huangpu, and is one of the most cosmopolitan big cities of China...










Walking in the Old town :

your typical shanghainese looks very Southern Chinese ^^ Beijingers seem to be different from Shanghainese people based on look and height. Maybe the division line of Northern and Southern China is the Yangtze River or the Huai river..cuz all southern chinese look quite alike according to my observations and are a large(in terms of population), distinct, commercial-oriented Chinese people. If you look at the top 10 richest Chinese most of them come from the South XD

Jiangnan is also home to a large percentage of scientists in Chinese Academy of Science.

out of curiosity Kevin are you a shanghainese raised in Hong Kong? because Jieu does not seem to be a mandarin pronounciation surname...!?

I personally think that Japanese are an intermix between the ancient Yue and Wu people who lived around the lower yangtze area, with the koreans and ainus. Because there was this documentary on japan and when they showed the civilians some of them looked Southern Chinese, some looked korean and some looked like a mixture of another ethnicity..perhaps the ainu. Because personally among the Taishanese people, i find we have this look that kind of look japanese. Koreans too have this slight souhern chinese look, which is possibly due to the Wu or Yue people that migrated from the Lower Yangtze area to South Korea then to Japan. Out of curiosity, the Yue and Wu people that lived along the south east coast of China - from Shanghai down through Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong - were they dark or fair skinned peoples? Vietnamese cannot be the best example of what the ancient Yue looked like in the past because of intermarriage with the local aboriginals (perhaps the Hmong, Malays) of today's modern Vietnam.

There was a documentary I watched once, a japanese documentary about human genetics, in a survey they did on japanese population of the main island if I remembered correctly, the largest part of japanese were of chinese and korean genetics, there were also some ainu genes, some genes from pacific islands, only a very very small portion were of entirely different gene from others. Of course, this is topic for another discussion.

Okay, Andy, no more thread hijack please!

Kindly limit extensive digressions/chitchat on Chinese ethnicities etc. to threads in the appropriate subforum(s). Further similar posts in this thread will be deleted or moved without warning.

This thread is for discussing Shanghai Skyline and Photos..anything out of the topic should belong to other forums.

These photos remind me of New York and Hongkong. But I prefer Paris, among the "big" cities.

According to the locals in Shanghai, the population is 14 million for the local residence, but there are about 15 million outsiders working in Shanghai. So the total mobile population of Shanghai is around 30 million.

I heard from the locals that China is building one superlarge 'mega city' of about 70 million people stretching from Shanghai to Hangzhou (capital of Zhejiang province south of Shanghai). The total area stretched some 200 km, housing millions of people, industry and large commercial zone.

China today (early 21st century) is just like US in early 20th century rapidly industrializing and undergoing an urbanization process, where millions poured into the cities. There are of course social problems.

Nowadays, few abnormal signs are springing from our grand economic develpoment and prosperity. In fact, China is overly rely on foreign investment ,esp refers to Auto-makers, machine tool and etc.
In 1993 Shanghai 1st automaker made a historically structual reform, outcome seemed to be optimistic because volkswagen entered. Since then, Shanghai 1st automaker stopped producing it's brandname car"shanghai" sedan, instead made volkswagen.
"shanghai"sedan(1970s-1980s) http://auto.sina.com.cn/news/2007-04-19/0006267839.shtml

It's totally Chinese-made car. In fact, the gap between China and America was not that wide in terms of auto industry. In fact, this car is the friut of industrilization of 1953-1970.
Now, domestic car is disappeared temporarily.

I read that the city sinks of seven millimeters a year because stocks of groundwaters last and because of the weight of the constructions... There would be more than 4000 buildings with more than 18 floors and many others are under construction.

Liu

i think this is the gov't way of making china the biggest in everything Lol Biggest Dam, highest train tracks (the train that links eastern china to tibet), biggest bridge (the shanghai - Ningbo bridge), biggest population, etc

I heard that Shanghai has stopped growing(like it used to) recently and perhaps this is the gov't way of bringing in more investment from foreign companies into the city.