"The city is difficult to read"
Over at cityofsound, Dan Hill has posted some stories and photos of Shanghai by Justin O’Connor, Director of the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture:
I give a lecture on Manchester - shock city - trying to evoke the newness of the city, of its unprecedented growth, its raw energy, the brutal but exhilarating power of its modernisation. Because it ate its children, it sucked them into its furnace stomach from farther and farther afield. Shanghai is doing this now…
Read more of Shanghai Diary #1