The world's 1st commercial Magnetic Levitation Train - Shanghai (tinyurl.com/2feek4)
Can reach 350 km/h (220 mph) in 2 minutes, with a maximum speed in normal operation of 431 km/h (268 mph). The camera was a bit shaky as you can imagine.
View from the window of the maglev train.
Airport to Shanghai station in seven minutes (30 km/ 18.6 miles)
Night out at the Face Bar - Shanghai
Rainy Sunday morning in Old Town - Shanghai
Inside the Huxinting Tea House est. 1784 - Shanghai
Photographed by nice, Chinese tourists - Shanghai
Sitting Room in the Yuyuan Gardens complex.
Yuyuan Garden passage. the Gardens were establish by Pan Family during the Ming Dynasty.
Yuyuan Garden Goldfish Pond and pavilion
Katy in Yuyuan Garden
Most buildings were topped with these small guardians - Yuyuan Garden
Keeping Evil at Bay - Yuyuan Garden
Dragon Wall - Yuyuan Garden (Note that the dragon has three claws. Only the emperor could have a "true" dragon, which has five claws.)
Dragons and Warriors - Yuyuan Garden
More Dragons - Yuyuan Garden
Entrance Passage - Yuyuan Garden
Elephant, Dragon and Priest - Yuyuan Garden
Building in Yuyuan Garden
Mother and Child - Yuyuan Garden
Old Town shopping square - Shanghai
Even here - Shanghai
Exhibition promoting Chinese food products. They are having trouble marketing to foreigners. I wonder why? (See also next photo.)
You will not be forced to eat - Old Town, Shanghai
Inside the "Old Town Snack Optional Palace." Despite the confusing name this was an amazing place. It's a cafeteria-style buffet with hundreds of "optionals" to chose from.
Old Town, Shanghai
People's Park/Remnin Square, Shanghai
Inside the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall, which is actually much more interesting than it sounds.
Floating People - From the "CO-evolution" ehibition. A joint Chinese/Danish project exploring the future of dense, Urban architecture.
The plans march on, Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall
Plan for the "Magic Mountains" project. The green shapes are collections of buildings. Each green pod is a "five minute" city within a larger urban space. (Named that because you are never more than a five minute walk from a transportaion hub or green space. More here http://tinyurl.com/29fv75 and http://tinyurl.com/2gctnj
Katy studies the future of urbanism - Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall
Plan for the city wall if Xian. The large geometric buildings form an entertainment and tiurism perimiter around the old city walls- Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall
Scale model of the plan for Xian City Walls - Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall
Artist rending ot the Xian City Walls depicting the entertainment/tourism zone around the city center - Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall
A picture Jeff took for his friend Dave H - Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall
Scale model of Shanghai in 2020 - Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall
This thing was huge - Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall
One more bird's eye view from a floor up - Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall
People's Park, Shanghai
Shanghai Subway
Katy on the Bund, a Promenade which was "Shanghai's Wall Street" before the revolution - Shanghai
View of Pudong from the Bund. Prior to 1990 what you see here was boggy farmland. Now it is the financial center of Shanghai.
Tourists on the Bund with Pudong in the background. The colorful spire is the Oriental Pearl TV tower - Shanghai
Looking back at the Bund. Neoclassical, "new york style" buildings, many built in the 1930s or earlier - Shanghai
1,000 Buddhas - Shanghai Museum
Chinese teapots (for Katherine) - Shanghai Museum
Old money with dragons - Shanghai Museum
More old money with dragons - Shanghai Museum
Marble Lion - Shanghai Museum
Bronze Vessel - Shanghai Museum
Our pad, Rui Jin Hotel, Shanghai. Once a private residence the hotel is comprised of five French Villas. This area, called the French Concession, was founded in 1849 and was administered by France until 1946.
Katy at the Rui Jin Hotel, Shanghai.
Rui Jin Hotel, Shanghai
Shanghai Afternoon
Street in the French Concession, Shanghai
A taxi advertises clubs - Shanghai
