China's New Tomorrowland

Once a misty, forgotten backwater, the western Chinese city of Chongqing is growing faster than mapmakers and even government officials can track.

PHOTOS BY MATTHEW NIEDERHAUSER/INSTITUTE | AUGUST 16, 2010

In the fast-growing megacity of Chongqing, another bridge is under construction across the Yangtze River. There were no bridges before the 1960s; now there are more than a dozen in the downtown area.

Matthew Niederhauser/INSTITUTE

 
 

UBOEGLI

3:00 AM ET

August 25, 2010

another photo essay: OLD Chongqing

These pictures were made a few weeks ago, last July, mainly on the other side of the waterfront silhouette shown in the FP essay, but still pretty much downtown. Among so many other things, Chongqing IS a city of contrasts

http://ursb.posterous.com/old-chongqing-part-1
http://ursb.posterous.com/old-chongqing-part-2-0

 

NAIUY

6:44 AM ET

September 15, 2010

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