Shanghai 1990 vs 2010

Stupid people that know nothing about enonomics! The reason Shanghai has changes so much is due to the fact that the moron communists finally saw the futility of a command economy, and opened the country to foreign investment. Think about it...trillions in private foreign capital, 1.5 billion people, and a labor force willing to work for pennies compared to a vastly over paid western workforce and saturated markets. China is just catching up to the rest of the world!

shanghai has changed greatly over the past years.

Many thingas are changed...

That's what capitalism will do!

I went this year and it was Horrible!!.. think I would have much rather gone in the 1990's

Just 10 years?

are any of the buildings the same?

There is a lot of new buildings but there also a lot of buildings that sill remain between the photographs. It's just had to compare the two as the angle and distance of the pictures is not the same.

That's ridiculous...

watch out, the Chinese are busy in Cambodia.

Phnom Penh will be next for the treatment.

ugly isn't it?

it is called progress.

no, its definitely a somewhat modern day photo. look at the cargo ship on the right. and then, the building in the distance on the left.

im pretty sure the 1990 photo is a 1900 photo, helicopters and HD wide angled cameras existed in the 90's

It's darker these days

This seems impossible are you sure you don't mean 1890?

All this financed in part by the money generated by American armpits, absconded by the American Uber-Class for investment in the Shanghai, Beijing, and Hang Seng market places after conversion to safer, stronger Yuan and before the collapse of the American, fiat , over-manipulated,devalued, saw-buck on which we can no longer retire! All for cheap labor, and ROI! the GOP has friends that were made wealthy for all this at the expense of the common American worker. Look closely at the Capitalists monument to Corporatism in America: Detroit City! Weep! It is done! GM(America), once Capitalism's shining star, is now but a socialist arm of government, producing a battery car, a people's car, for the Obama's masses who will not be able to afford gasoline in the next round of the oil baron's exploitations - oil at $80.00 a barrel, soon to go to $100.00+ out of avarice and greed, common Saudis running around in Bugatti Veyrons - VW sells them, a million a pop! Asians bid for oil with powerful Yuan, over U,S, fiat -bucks and win hands down every time.America bled from within ans from oil barons has no chance at recovery, we are sinking like a stone! Must get off of oil, must regulate the very bastards the GOP represent and stop the hemorrhaging. Banksters needed prosecution, not silver cloud retirement schemes, but in America the Capitalist reigns supreme? No wonder Shanghai prospers - we paid for it!

How about some before and afters of Detriot?

I prefer the 90's version

I was there in 1987 and not again until 2007. The change was astounding! Thanks for the photos that show this!

can only say WOW! I've just been there 3 x in the last two months and it has been polluted and overcast each time, but what a great city. Still has a lot of old buildings, tree lined streets, parks, fab interesting restaurants, neighborhoods and galleries....I'm hooked.