"Possession is to be possessed, and therefore lost" .
The Book of Disquiet . Fernando Pessoa.
I put the title to put some input as to what the older part of town has historic center, is what I astronaut .
In the south of the main island of Chongqing, crammed into a few streets littered poorly managed, very old houses and sometimes unhealthy, along with growing housing towers less pleasing to the eye and are gaining ground at the most ancient in the city, and that leaves us amazing pictures of another time (imag01), with street markets (imag02) and almost disappeared offices also house full of neighbors games (imag03).
The urban fabric of this area is zero, hugs the hills as you can, and only in some points we can spot the yellow river is so close, and that little can be enjoyed as the traditional houses of the city , a Chinese version of the hanging of Cuenca, has disappeared in most of the city, I guess because of the poor structural stability today.
The walk through this area is more than recommended to remember what life was like in this urban setting decades ago, and as a contrast to its brutal and fast growth in recent years. That is why I take to make an image more of the things I saw and each judge what you think, for me it was really overwhelming sometimes.
visit to this inland city in China was mainly to observe closely the uncontrolled urban development that has led in recent years to be one of the largest cities in the world still unknown the rest of the planet.
Simply put, the massive displacement of all the inhabitants of the river near the river
these (imag03) or as dramatic as these other (imag04). The most surprising thing is that they continue to build to a brutal speed, and I could see buildings from major highways (imag05), but above all and most spectacular, a future Urban Planning Museum in the city that houses dozens of models of entire infrastructure city \u200b\u200bthat will build over the next 20 years!. Chongqing is a city where public transport is reduced to a few lines (if not only, really) underground which is also in some places as high as in Bangkok, in other underground, and others in the field but outside. That means that the city is infested jams at all hours, there are no bicycles for their relief, and that motorcycles are a real nightmare. The city has no obvious historical center even if there is a more or less clear zone oldest I will discuss in another entry.
The feeling is that there are missing opportunities to address urban extreme situations for the health of its inhabitants, who are passing slowly before them, and yet, not taken into account and continues to be built at a blistering pace for So this city few years can be anything but livable if not taken now, or at least that's the feeling at first sight and within days of taking your pulse.
A touch of color in all this chaos: the chance to meet a very interesting and good bar with live music located, 98 Concept Bar, although it is no wonder the band playing, can escape by few hours of city chaos.
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par excellence (imag01) and therefore allows us to escape from there to see the country p
I have recorded that the scenery is really beautiful, and photos of other friends that if they have.
Today I got the surprise of the Casa del Puente Mar del Plata, built by Amancio Williams in 1944, is again in danger of being abandoned as their fate. It is a beautiful house that I was fortunate to visit in 2001, and its wonderful setting with creek and trees all around him. Undoubtedly a paradise, if you leave to protect may be lost forever in this web arq + his evidenced and asked to collaborate in sending a mail and protect it, leave the link for those who it sees fit! !