#guangfuli

Tao Weiren sits in front of his two-story house in Guangfuli neighborhood, March 24, 2016. In a corner of Shanghai, surrounded by a cement wall, lies one of the world's most valuable fields of debris and garbage. On paper, the Guangfuli neighborhood is a real estate investor's dream: a plot in the middle of one of the world's most expensive and fast-rising property markets. But the reality is more like a developer's nightmare, thanks to hundreds of people living there who have refused to budge from their ramshackle homes for nearly 16 years as the local authority sought to clear the land for new construction. Source: Reuters / Aly Song — in Shanghai, China.

Man and Dog - In the news recently the residents of a small cluster of part demolished homes in the very center of Shanghai halt the property developers as they hold out for a better settlement. Too many to be simply threatened and beaten which is the normal way of solving the problem. More shots to come in the Guangfuli series. #guangfuli #shanghai #shanghailife #shanghaiist #shanghaicity #shanghainese #china #modernchina #citydevelopment #people #life #hardlife #buildings #architecture #demolition #leicaq #holdingon

Old houses stand in the walled Guangfuli neighborhood in Shanghai on April 8, 2016.

Jiang Wei cooks dinner outside a six-square-meter house he rents with a friend, in the Guangfuli neighborhood, on March 28, 2016. Jiang and his friend have rented the house for two years, paying 450 yuan ($69) monthly.

Reuters photographer Aly Song recently visited a small neighborhood in a corner of Shanghai, China—a remnant patch of smaller houses and shops where residents live in homes surrounded by demolition debris, a concrete wall, and looming skyscrapers on all sides. Song writes “On paper, the Guangfuli neighborhood is a real estate investor's dream: a plot in the middle of one of the world's most expensive and fast-rising property markets. But the reality is more like a developer's nightmare, thanks to hundreds of people living there who have refused to budge from their ramshackle homes for nearly 16 years as the local authority sought to clear the land for new construction.”