Totally cool!! So many of the doorways and windows are bricked up. Is that because they are tearing the old building down and building high-rise apartments?
Still unknown at this point. The first stage of the redevelopment is usually the evacuation of the area: all the residents are moved out (to be resettled in the suburbs later); the windows and doors of empty houses are sealed; entrances to small alleys are eventually walled off too.
Ridiculously, the plans have not been made public. Some academicians think (or hope) that it'll be the "keep the houses, get rid of the people" scenario, but I'm betting on the "keep one or two protected objects, destroy everything else" agenda.
There is no way they will renovate such a huge chunk of the old city. This amount of extravagant housing would not find enough high paying clients. Think about the area that has been cleared out and how many max 3-storey houses it has. The mode of compensation ensures, that the existing residents are pushed away into suburban poverty. So, I think it will be min 90% of demolition and then the for example gatehouse of Ziyuan will be airlifted to the neighbourhood of Shuyinlou to form a landscape. The temple behind finds a home at a local magnates country house. That's what will happen. You can renovate old towns house by house, but not in such a scale with a totally new set of residents and tenants. I hope I'm wrong.
Sadly, you're right. I can't think of any reasons to expect a different scenario. There are only four officially protected buildings in the entire area. A friend just sent this reminder of an incongruous relocation of a building in Dongjiadu in 2016: https://mip.jianzhuj.cn/news/9191.html The article forgets to mention that one half of the ensemble was hastily demolished as its application for protection was pending.
It's not sequential actually. There's so much new paint I hardly recognize some corners! Painful to look at these lifeless bricked up doorways. Which time in the video is the location #4?
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Totally cool!! So many of the doorways and windows are bricked up. Is that because they are tearing the old building down and building high-rise apartments?
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Ridiculously, the plans have not been made public. Some academicians think (or hope) that it'll be the "keep the houses, get rid of the people" scenario, but I'm betting on the "keep one or two protected objects, destroy everything else" agenda.
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A friend just sent this reminder of an incongruous relocation of a building in Dongjiadu in 2016: https://mip.jianzhuj.cn/news/9191.html The article forgets to mention that one half of the ensemble was hastily demolished as its application for protection was pending.
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1. Shuyinlou
2. Xu residence on Qiaojia Lu
3. Ziyuan (?)
4. ?
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