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The fast developments of the city leave temporary traces that as well fast disappear to make room to new skyscrapers..The typical Shanghai home, the "shikumen", build by French at the beginning of the last century are razing because the value land..In Anfu Lu, area that just join the status of -center city+, 1200 families are send away to make room for a skyscraper. Around seventy families do not want give up despite the skyscraper company offer them as money as 12 years average gain of a Chinese employers: 120.000.00 Yuan. A woman still living there, 75-years-old, bought the right to live there for 1 (one) Yuan (10 cents of ?) in the 50's and less than 50 Yuan for year. She say the money are not enough to buy a home in the same area and she do not want go far away..A worker still working at late evening...

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Alessandro Digaetano
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Shanghai Ruins
The fast developments of the city leave temporary traces that as well fast disappear to make room to new skyscrapers..The typical Shanghai home, the "shikumen", build by French at the beginning of the last century are razing because the value land..In Anfu Lu, area that just join the status of -center city+, 1200 families are send away to make room for a skyscraper. Around seventy families do not want give up despite the skyscraper company offer them as money as 12 years average gain of a Chinese employers: 120.000.00 Yuan. A woman still living there, 75-years-old, bought the right to live there for 1 (one) Yuan (10 cents of ?) in the 50's and less than 50 Yuan for year. She say the money are not enough to buy a home in the same area and she do not want go far away..A worker still working at late evening...