Archive for cities
Shanghai >> Hangzhou
April 26th, 2013 • cities, movingmemos, travel
Tags: hangzhou 杭州, on-the-move, shanghai 上海
Shanghai - Hangzhou | April 22, 2013
During the month of April, MovingCities spend three Mondays in Hangzhou 杭州 lecturing at the School of Architecture of China Academy of Art Hangzhou [CAA 中国美术学院建筑艺术学院] on the relation between architecture, urbanism and the movies. While travelling on the Shanghai–Hangzhou High-Speed Railway [also known as Huhang High-Speed Railway 沪杭高速铁路], we kept on documenting the changes and construction culture along the train tracks. read more »
Chongqing | Huangjueping Graffiti Street
February 13th, 2013 • cities, movingmemos, travel
Tags: chongqing 重庆
Huangjueping in Chongqing's Jiulongpo District | January 18, 2013
Huangjueping Graffiti Street 黄桷坪涂鸦街 is said to be the largest graffiti art region in China and the world. While in Chongqing 重庆, MovingCities visited the area home to a number of galleries, studios, and art schools – most notably, the 501 Art Warehouse and Organhaus Art Space and the old campus of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute [SCFAI 四川美术学院]. read more »
Chongqing | topography & territory
January 28th, 2013 • cities, movingmemos, travel
Tags: chongqing 重庆
Chongqing 重庆 | January 17, 2013
Last week, MovingCities visited Chongqing 重庆. Located in the South-West of China and at the confluence of the Jialing River 嘉陵江 and Yangtze River 扬子江, this metropolis is one of the PRC’s four direct-controlled municipalities [the other three are Beijing 北京, Shanghai 上海 and Tianjin 天津]. Chongqing is know for a variety of reasons, one for its nearly 30 million inhabitants, another, maybe less known, that it has Asia’s longest escalator [112 meter].
In our first set of pictures we look at the city’s topography. read more »
Shanghai | life on Jiangxi North Road
January 15th, 2013 • cities, movingmemos
Tags: shanghai 上海
JiangXi North Road | Shanghai, January 13, 2012
The Embankment building 河滨大楼 [see our June 2012 + May 2011 coverage] is located in-between Henan Road Bridge 河南路桥 & JiangXi North Road 江西北路 [Hongkou District 虹口区]. Just behind this edifice is a large sprawling shopping area, which we started to call ‘Little Beijing‘. Recently MovingCities walked around this small pocket of urban informality and photographed the faces of JiangXi North Road 江西北路. read more »
Shanghai >> Shenzhen | from pigeon to airplane
January 10th, 2013 • cities, movingmemos, travel
Tags: aerophotography, on-the-move, shanghai 上海, shenzhen 深圳
Shanghai - Shenzhen | December 7, 2012
Last month, MovingCities flew from Shanghai 上海 to Shenzhen 深圳.
In the past years, we landed in Shenzhen 深圳 from many different directions. This time around we descended along the city’s most densified urban areas and used this opportunity to discuss the relation between aerophotography and the work German apothecary Julius Neubronner [1852-1932]. Or how aerophotography moved from pigeon photography to the cabin cruising.
But the ambition is the same, to develop a “Method of and Means for Taking Photographs of Landscapes from Above.” read more »
Hangzhou | metro & Hutouchen village
December 17th, 2012 • cities, movingmemos
Tags: demolition, hangzhou 杭州, urbanism
Hangzhou's Hutouchen Village 湖头陈村 in Chengxiang Town, Xiaoshan District | 2012
During the past few weeks MovingCities spend a considerable amount of time in Hangzhou 杭州. Besides lecturing at CAA, we ventured out into some unknown metropolitan territories. As the new Hangzhou Metro was recently opened, we embarked on a field trip to the end of the line and found Hutouchen Village 湖头陈村, a village soon to disappear. read more »
WAI in a week | by WAI [part II]
November 16th, 2012 • architectures, cities, contributors, movingmemos
Tags: beijing 北京, urbanism
WAI Architecture Think Tank | Wall Stalker
WAI Architecture Think Tank is this week’ MovingCities guest of honor: Ever wondered what a week of WAI looks like? WAI in a week – a coincidental look into the urban, architectural, artistic and homey Beijing 北京 life of architects Cruz Garcia & Nathalie Frankowski.
PART I featured urban stories, from Saturday to Tuesday, PART II till the end of the week. read more »
