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Here's what it looks like from above in a photo taken in early 2006, with the area scheduled for demolition marked off:
Here are the plans for the New Town, taken from the official website:
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Here's a view of a corner store taken in December 2006,
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June 2008,
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July 2008,
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and October 2008.
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Of course, I managed to find a tall perch from which to take time-lapse panoramas of the destruction:
This is quite the comparison with how it looked back in June:
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At that time I photographed these women tending to a garden. It seemed the owner (or resident) of this dwelling was not planning on leaving anytime soon.
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It seems that was a correct guess.
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2 comments:
That last house is what the Chinese refer to as a "nail house" or 钉子户.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nail_house
The news today about the squatters and the SWAT member getting killed reminded me of your post and an old post of mine.
새해 복 많이 받으세요, by the way.
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