Where Do People Live?

[johey24]

Moving on to the New part of Shanghai, basically known as Pudong ("East of the River"). About fifteen years ago this was farm land. Today it is the heart of Modern China. It is still being built and as you can see from the first three shots, it is difficult to take skyline photos without having cranes and new buildings in the shot.

From our back window, the city sprawling out towards the coast. These are the typical, new(er) middle class apartments, with all the modern services and close to every amenity you could imagine.

Nightfall from the balcony

Luxury apartments around the three highest buildings in China and three of the highest in the world, FLTR The Pearl Tower (80-something storeys), the Jin Mao (88 storeys) and the new Trade Centre still being build (to be 103 storeys, I think, and will for a short period of time be the highest in the world).

Just a mundane, suburban parking lot in the back of the apartments

Wide, clean lanes outside our apartment

 

[Stanley Edwards]

Fascinating stuff johey24. Thanks for taking the time to post them

 

[cesare]

I always love seeing pics of China

 

[chooch]

House at the end of the road on the right with the lamp sticking out. It looks like those opposite, but scruffier- pretty typical for this bit of Seville. It's got a great terrace, a kitchen with half a roof and a fusebox that sparks and trips whenever someone turns on a heater

 

[dessiato]

My apartment is in there somewhere!

 

[dessiato]

Oi where's my pictuer gone?

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

This is Amager, the Shitty Island, south of Copenhagen, this is a shot on the beach 5 minutes from my house. This industrial estate is what is in the background when you view the little mermaid - but from the other side.
Amager is called the shitty island as basically alot of it is artificial. Used a rubbish dump for hundreds of years.
Also on Amager is Christiania.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

 

[Firky]

its largely old houses, farms and castles around here

some people used to live in these boat sheds now fishermen just use them

 

[johey24]

Quintessentially British, Firky. Lovely area you live in.

 

[Jonti]

This one's filtched from the Urban75 archives. It shows Railton Road, where I live in a small flat on the top floor of a converted Victorian house (somewhere on the right of the picture).

The houses have a semi or half basement ... you can see the stairs up to the main front door, but there are also external stairs from the street down to the separate semi-basement. Many of the buildings have had back extensions and have been divided further giving three dwellings. At the back, there is a small, but very shaded yard.

There is no space for garbage. The black containers littering the pavement (which gets progressively narrower in the direction of the photograph) are wheelie bins. Yes, they are a hazard and an obstruction, especially for the disabled.

Another view (filched from some estate agent pretending that the houses shown are actually in Herne Hill )

On the left of the main photograph is a public house. It's a new building, to replace the pub on the same site that was destroyed in the riots of the 1980s.

 

[Yossarian]

Some older houses like this scattered around:

 

[Yossarian]

But this kind predominates. (Not actually my roof!)

 

[Barking_Mad]

i donthave any of the building i live in, but here's a couple of views from my window overlooking Kirkstall Abbey.

http://www.pbase.com/barking_mad/image/90912113/original

http://www.pbase.com/barking_mad/image/81980361/original

 

[Firky]

Some older houses like this scattered around:

North east Lamma Island?

 

[Yossarian]

Yep, did you Google 'Mo Tat Village'? I'm in a more built-up part of the island but if I thought I could avoid cabin fever I'd fancy living in one of those smaller villages.

 

[Firky]

Yep but if you hadn't of said that I was going to say I lived there for a bit

 

[Firky]