Demolished

Almost everything you read here is about the INCREDIBLE PACE OF CONSTRUCTION ...blah, blah, blah. It's true. Buildings go up overnight. Cranes fill the skyline. You hear that circular saw sound (kinda: "zzzzzZZZZZeeee") twenty-four hours a day.

Equally, there's an incredible pace of demolition that gives the city a less sexy, but still futuristic, post-apocalyptic feel. The first photo is the former site of Xiangyang Market a few blocks from my house. If you look closely you can see the poor clod who has to use a torch to break apart the metal remnants and then remove them piece by piece.

The next photo is a site near Suzhou Creek. I took this photo as I was walking toward the site of the new Xiangyang Market which is in a dumpy basement in Hongkou.

The last photo is my favorite ...it's an earth mover demolishing a building from the inside out. I took the photo through the front window of the building. If you want worker safety guidelines like this, please remember to vote Republican.