Tag: narrow
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Life in the old lanes~ Shanghai
Behind and right next door to the glitz and glamour of Shanghai, real people live their real lives in the old lanes. The first shock you get walking through the very old parts of town is the extreme narrowness of the alleys and the very small size of the overcrowded rooms people call home. It…
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Day Three Hundred Sixty, January 17, 2012
I used to live in New York City and always thought: too many people, too little space, overcrowded, claustrophobic. And then I moved to China. It is quite difficult to describe in words and even in photos the amount of space people have to fit their lives inside of in a city like Shanghai. It…