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. A to be?
Simply put, the massive displacement of all the inhabitants of the river near the river illo love, according to some sources two cities and twelve towns, the creation of the world's largest dam, but will not put more concrete data because surely I equivocate, nor exactly how many millions of people have had to land in this chaotic city.
All this has caused has had to build much in a short time, escarpadísimo ground, with an unusual density. Especially in the downtown area, the main island that is surrounded by two rivers, there are hundreds of buildings hive of hundreds of tiny feet housing apartments (imag01) seriation
balconies inert and inhuman treatment (imag02), leaving their prints in the rugged hills
as curious as
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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