A lilong lane off Baoqing Lu near the start of Hengshan Lu - a very good (and very popular) small Cantonese restaurant is down this lane, as well as a couple of stores - otherwise it's all a residential district

On a bridge over a canal intersecting Tianlin Lu, the repetition of huge identical apartment buildings is always a little bit spooky

Some sort of big meeting with speeches in the entry courtyard below my language school - sounded like a bunch of bullshit with lots of fake clapping

A curious little corner of a large renovation/home improvement market off Tianlin Lu, the large vacant lots seem to be used for parking, and yes, the speed limit sign for the corner seems to read 5kph!

Putting his feet up, inside "Cité Bourgogne", a lilong of Shikumen housing built in 1930, along Jianguo Zhong Lu

A less polished and touristy lane in Qibao old town, in suburbs of Shanghai, it's an old village swallowed up by the city and is a short walk from a subway station on Line 9

A building entrance inside a lilong district

The spire of the former Palace of Sino-Soviet Friendship (now Shanghai Exhibition Centre) poking up behind some local buildings along Tongren Road near West Nanjing Road

Relaxing at the side of the road

A lilong district viewed from a pedestrian overpass at the Yan'an Elevated Road