China Day 07: Things Seen from the Bus Window

Here are some of the sights of the Shanghai streets.

A lovely civic park:

A stylish modern building:

contrasted with a neighborhood of Shikumen.

These are the Shanghainese version of the hutong neighborhoods. Rather than spread out around courtyards as in Beijing, in Shanghai they built upwards in townhouses that hybridize Chinese styles with European ones. These were largely built during the colonial era.

A greengrocer's stall:

and a more modern eatery: