[Urban Zombie®]

So some of these have been accumulating since Last August or so--in case some of you were wondering about the SWFC's dramatic height differences from picture to picture.

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...and pretty much the whole thing (as of Dec. 2006--and apologies, the full rez version is much more impressive but too big to upload)
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...so long and thanks for all of the shoes
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And thanks for enduring this up to the bitter end!

[fflint]

Soooo sweet.

[Jonas]

This was a pleasure, I'm never getting bored of Shanghai even if it was 1000's of photos in one thread... big thanks :tup:

[Shawn]

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Best Buy in China? Im no kanji expert, but those first two read as "one-hundred" and "feel". The third one, I've never seen in any Japanese writing before, so it might be one of the many kanji that the Japanese didn't adopt. What's the full translation read?

[flar]

Good stuff there

[Urban Zombie®]

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Best Buy in China? Im no kanji expert, but those first two read as "one-hundred" and "feel". The third one, I've never seen in any Japanese writing before, so it might be one of the many kanji that the Japanese didn't adopt. What's the full translation read?

Literal translation: "One-hundred Think Buy"--although it is intended to be a more phonetic translation than semantic one.

[DamienK]

Great collection of pics!

[WesternGulf]

Absolutely stunning. Wouldn't mind living there for a year or two.

[muppet]

mindblowing stuff

[plinko]

The number of vantage points you seem to find are staggering. That Regent Hotel pan is sick! Wonder what that looks like at night?

Oh...and more please (http://farm1.static.flickr.com/132/380275208_5d1047b21c_o.jpg)!!!

[Sekkle]

Incredible city, stunning photos! Thanks!

[mSeattle]

Shanghai gonna make me lose my religion and curse. I'm about to curse, ya'll!
Anton, you not play fair. :D ;)

[kool maudit]

like seeing new york in 1910.

[sbarn]

WOW!! Amazing tour (again). Thanks for sharing! :cheers:


This one is really getting up there...
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[ibz]

Great Photos! That last pan is fantastic!

Man do i miss Shanghai

[Wheelingman04]

Fabulous collection!!

[James Bond Agent 007]

Whoa.

That's all I can say.

[keninhalifax]

Wow, that's a whole lot of humanity. Thanks for the photos!

[Prahaboheme]

What is this building? I love it!
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[PhilippeMtl]

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They have street gang in Shanghai?

[kpexpress]

WOW! Oh how I do miss Shanghai 上海

令人美满

[itom 987]

Great Photos! That last pan is fantastic!

Man do i miss Shanghai

I miss Shanghai too. :(

[The Chemist]

I miss Shanghai too. :(

As do I. But I'm going back there for a year to teach English in August! :banana:

[Ex-Ithacan]

Not only is it an amazing set of pics, but it made me long for a nice dish of Kung Pao Shrimp. Great stuff Anton, thanks.

[VivaLFuego]

Awesome.

[Goody]

Yikes

[LosAngelesBeauty]

Wow, Shanghai looks like a city well over 18 million people. More like 60 million! Wowzers!

[muppet]

It grew by 3 million a year after 2003. ^That 60 million figure might just be a worst case scenario if the trends continue, 40 million is if the authorities succeed in curbing the rural flight. The city is over 20 million now (24 my estimate?).

To house 20,000 newcomers a day? Check out google Earth and see the inexorable spread of the city, where once it was a smudge on the Huangpu 'creek' it now straddles up to the massive Yangtze and may one day reach Hangzhou in the south. The thing is its not a big suburban spread that is growing on its outskirts, but thousands and thousands of checkerblock highrises.

[staff]

Truly fantastic pictures, Anton - every one of them. God damn!

muppet,
My estimate is 26 million at the moment, and growing as hell...

[-GR2NY-]

Theres gotta be more residential towers in shanghai over 10 floors than all of the united states combined.

[hkskyline]

Lovely set. SWFC is rising quickly!

[oak-sea]

Those all look like sycamores!?

[Jaroslaw]

Thanks for these... would have liked more commentary about locations, especially that penultimate pano (not the one with the river)...

[austin356]

It looks as if nothing will be the same within the next few days...... just personal perception though.

But regardless, that is a bunch of Chinamen. I pity any government agency that attempts to do a census.

[Urban Zombie®]

It looks as if nothing will be the same within the next few days...... just personal perception though.


Thus, like Dinah Washington said, "What a difference a day makes"...

For everybody who decided to drop a post--thanks for giving my crappy pictures the time of day! :tup:

[Ninjatune]

fk.

[BnaBreaker]

Wow...I hope someday i'll have the chance to go back to Shanghai. What a wonderful city.

[Urban Zombie®]

In the spirit of the Chinese New Year, I'll give this one last go. Happy Year of the Pig!

[Ex-Ithacan]

^ The Golden Pig?

[giovanni sasso]

holy mother of god. you fine tuned yrself since we last checked in, anton. there's some wicked, wicked schidtt amongst this collection. father-n-son, ten-million-people-packed-into-one-space, the neon easter egg on its side, the stadium, and so forth. i didn't know SWFC was that big either.

CONGRATULATIONS!

[pwright1]

OMG!! Truely amazing. Makes Seattle look like Buckley Wa. Anton these are some badass pics. Shanghai is one of the world's most amazing cities.

[KevinFromTexas]

:eek: Holy moly.
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[bandit]

great photos.. and the best panorama shot of shanghai i have ever seen.

[M II A II R II K]

Those shots were really impressive, really liked the architectural shots and the aerials and the highrises in the background shots.

[Buckeye Native 001]

The skyscrapers sometimes hide how dense Shanghai really is. These were incredible shots :tup:

[Kingofthehill]

Epic.

Make me wanna holla!