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China’s instant cities by Christoph Gielen

“A transient population had settled within the security walls of this residential construction site in Baoshan. Until the project’s completion, migrant workers lived in the temporary dwellings visible on the horizon of the photograph. In addition, squatters, mostly from rural areas, vended wares and even harvested a few green sprouts, biding their time until the walls came down and the middle class arrived.”

Peripheral Shanghai, China

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