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         		 CONTINUUM / The geometry of the city is continuous. It lies outside the capacity of comprehensive perception. It is unfolded in its complexity like the magic of a pieces of paper that we open in our hands, by allowing the cuts to find their unique configuration in the physical dimensions. And then when you walk into the horizon of the noisy Shanghai, it is still possible to listen to the fragile whisper of papers in people's hands, you can see hands that unfold the physical height and depth together; those hands that cherish the memory of the ancestors and the foreseeing of new generations in the daily instant, where the dimensions of city geometry converge and replicate in always new shapes. : by urijoe, Views[948]
         		 ROUNDNESS / The soul of the city is round. It is the circle where culture and economics converge and melt. It is the safe place where the center is protected, where from it can expand further. As any camps in the history of primordial societies, they have been built around convergent center and divergent expansion directions; a fire bounds them, it reminds where is the light of home. Despite the urbanization sprawl, people continue nowadays to light up fires and to trace lines to get home safely. They draw circles to bring bodies and souls where they belong to, in space and time. Downtown, people celebrates lunar rituals also when the moon itself is hidden by the peaks of modernity. : by urijoe, Views[869]
         		 PROFUNDITY / Nevertheless, cities are rooted down. The highest the peak, the strongest has to be the ground. The long shadows of urbanization often hide its own backstage, that in China is undoubtedly rural, but with the same possibly infinitely long bamboo tools that allow mankind to get closer to the sky, someone keeps on digging deeper. Horizontal flows are vigorously nurtured by the hearth, thanks to the humans that balance the city geometry in between peaks and abyss. : by urijoe, Views[902]
         		 HEIGHT / We push cities up on a stairway to heaven, by giving for granted that heavens lies upon us. Mankind collects energy and strength in the horizontal flows, and pour it vigorously towards more and more high summit. We together strive for a newer peak, we rise on possibly infinitely long bamboo scaffolding, we work for an extended boundary: in the heights we look for more space, however by giving away the continuum of the horizontal space, by fragmenting our plane of equilibrium. : by urijoe, Views[905]
     
    HORIZON / This story is about the geometry of cities, the dimensions of their spatial and immaterial structure, the shape of their souls. It is the story I tell myself whilst being exploring Shanghai and its maze, whilst continuously playing with the focalization adjustment between the physical space and the spiritual place that are melted together in the urbanization continuum. We continuously perceive physical details of the space, by the glimpses of being travelers, citizens, flaneurs, nomads; we look up to the peaks of building, but our bodies move across, horizontally. We perceive cities by their altitude, but what we really see is at the level of the view, is the glimpse of the neighborhood that stills in front of us, is the shadow that stay longer when people come along with their carts. Looking up we perceive boundaries, looking horizontally we perceive inner motions: city lives horizontally, creatures and artifacts flows alongside and diverge at crossroads, when the horizon breaks the shadows.: by urijoe, Views[831]
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    His and Hers: by amcommins, Views[842]
         		 The model photography exhibition: by amcommins, Views[802]
         		 Doing the washing: by amcommins, Views[738]
         		 Galleries inside 'houses': by amcommins, Views[874]
         		 Mao, minus the head: by amcommins, Views[845]
     
    Walking along Tianzishan: by kittong, Views[372]
         		 Love Ribbons Tianzishan: by kittong, Views[289]
         		 Road Up Tianzishan: by kittong, Views[323]
         		 Looking at Tianzishan: by kittong, Views[318]
         		 Cable Car Going Up Towards Tianzishan, Zhangjiajie : by kittong, Views[360]
     
    Graffiti advertises the services of local tradesman looking for work in Jing Jin, plastered on a transfer box that sits in the shadow of an abandoned high rise building in the middle of nowhere. The simple messages consist of a job description (eg. 'roof tiler') and a contact phone number. The desolate fields surrounding Jing Jin mirror the emptied ghost town of the city itself.: by mharding, Views[1047]
         		 The unlikely guardians of Jing Jin's thousands of deserted properties are teenage security guards, firm but polite in keeping visitors out of abandoned private property. Visitors are a rare sight in this sleepy city and it's hard to tell who's more curious: the inquisitive photographer or the bored guard.: by mharding, Views[672]
         		 The Hyatt Regency hotel still operates and remains one of Jing Jin main attractions. The site has a ghostly air given the lack of guests and activity in a city that intended to house upwards of half a million residents.: by mharding, Views[588]
         		 One of the thousands of newly built luxury villas left deserted in Jing Jin. Although these houses were built only a few years ago, poor quality materials and construction have left them weathered and dilapidated. : by mharding, Views[1154]
         		 Jing Jin is one of China's many recently developed eco cities. Despite developers' attempts to entice residents of neighbouring mining towns with promises of new educational facilities and a scientific research centre, the 104sq km sits abandoned and unused. : by mharding, Views[1315]
     
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         		 A villager leaves his catch of the day out in the setting sun to dry. : by hkamsadi, Views[260]
         		 After a long hard day, gondoliers secure their gondolas to call it a day. : by hkamsadi, Views[283]
         		 A gondolier paddles through the water village. : by hkamsadi, Views[282]
         		 First glimpse of the gondolas. Apart from ferrying tourists, these boats serve as the main form of transportation in the village.: by hkamsadi, Views[328]
     
    The same fisherman at the waterlily pond.: by kire, Views[232]
         		 As if the waterlily leaves are floating in the air in a dream of a fisherman...: by kire, Views[243]
         		 Water and vegetation form a miniature pond inside a broken boat.: by kire, Views[651]
         		 A fallen umbrella in the waterlily pond providing a touch of surrealism.: by kire, Views[367]
         		 A picture reminiscent of Monet's
     
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