Streets Worth a Stroll in Nanking 2 – Baiziting

Baiziting is close to yesterday’s stroll of Fuhougang but has perhaps suffered from having attention drawn to it – as we know in Shanghai nothing attracts the rapacious desires of the property developers than preservation orders!! Baiziting has been designated a ‘historical architecture area’ yet many of the older ‘Republican era’ properties here are in worse shape than Fuhougang and the developers are poking away nibbling at the edges and building inappropriate new modern buildings in the heart of the supposed ‘historical architecture area’ – a particularly hideous example appears to be a new express type hotel of boxlike dimensions and no architectural merit whatsoever. However, there are several pretty decent early 1930s properties on, or just off, Baiziting worth noting:

as you can see some are in good condition…

and some in decidedly less good condition!

and this final shot is the front and balcony of the building above