Traffic on Caobao Lu

A hand cart loaded up with wicker chairs

Pushkin Statue in a little square (or rather triangular parkette) at Dongping Lu and Yueyang Lu south of Fuxing Zhong Lu in the French Concession

An old couple sitting on a bench in Xujiahui Park

View along Caoxi Lu with the Humin Elevated Rd above, near the Shanghai Ikea - the arched bridge is how the elevated metro Line 3 crosses the big roads here

A woman washing some shoes in a canal/river near the brigde on busy Tianlin Lu - the canal water did not look very clean and could be smelled from the bridge…. you get used to seeing such things in rural areas and villages, but in the middle of Shanghai it seems rather odd

A road-widening in progress - this is Wanping Nan Lu south of Longhua Lu where it used to be a small lane (whereas the rest of Wanping Lu is a fairly major road, you can still see the curb of the road here) - buildings along both sides have been demolished leaving exposed sides of the buildings (the buildings to either side form part of what was probably an older village that has been swallowed by surrounding development) - in this case, development is not occurring along the road, only enough space has so far been demolished for the wider road, however further south along the road are a number of massive new developments and subway Line 12 under construction as well as access points to the Longhua Port area along the Huangpu River and there is significant truck traffic along this road

Still life with bicycles… (a curious interstitial space between the old Longhua Airport and the Longhua port area)

The view from along the famous Bund along the Huangpu River, showing the Pudong area across the river with its towers (including the Pearl Tower, the one that looks like a spaceship)

An old lady getting a haircut from an itinerant bicycle barber in a neighbourhood south of Tianlin Lu and west of Qinzhou Lu