Shanghai Street Stories blogger and erstwhile Shanghaiist contributor Sue Anne Tay will be exhibiting some of her marvelous photos in "Construct, Demolish, Repeat: Building the Shanghai Dream" at the Southern Barbarian: Lujiazui on Saturday. It'll be well worth a visit - not only will you see great photos by a talented photog who's been recently featured in The Atlantic and Foreign Policy, but there will be some free eats and drinks too! more ›

The New York Times has a photo gallery and write up of the rapid urbanization and sometimes frightening construction happening in China's biggest cities - specifically around Shanghai and Hong Kong. While the writing leans towards flowery ("These photographs are ecological in the classical sense of the word—”eco” meaning “home” in Greek, and “log” meaning “word”—since they create a dialogue about home, about the way infrastructure first reflects our aspirations and assumptions, and then shapes them," says Todd Doddy), the pictures themselves are stark and beautiful, despite being only about half-constructed, entirely generic buildings. more ›

We mentioned before that various videos are being submitted to Youku for inclusion in the upcoming Beijing College Student Film Festival's Short Films Awards when we highlighted Tina's Life in Shanghai a couple months ago. Now Kaiser Kuo's done everyone the favor of picking out some of his favorites - and lo and behold - one's about Shanghai. more ›

A couple days ago, we mentioned Dongjiadu, an old middle-class neighborhood just south of the Bund that's being razed over for... I'm not sure what to call it in Shanghai - urban renewal? Now a reader has written in to inform us that there's a nail house there. more ›