A Must Watch – Shanghai’s Lost Heritage

We are now in the last days of Shanghai’s old town. With a few years, if not sooner, it will all be gone. There is no plan to keep anything; Shanghai’s urban planners have no interest in retaining, let alone restoring, any of the ancient buildings left within the district. This video, from Associated Press, shows the extent of the destruction and the failure of attention by the city to its own heritage and architecture. All too soon videos and photographs such as this will be all that remains of the old city as it now faces close to total extinction…