Shanghai's 'burbs

Welcome to Shanghai’s ‘burbs where myriads live amid a boundless sea of high-rise condominiums, streets are coated in construction dust and omnipresent arterial expressways lead to yet more suburban sprawl.

Welcome to Shanghai’s ‘burbs where myriads live amid a boundless sea of high-rise condominiums, streets are coated in construction dust and omnipresent arterial expressways lead to yet more suburban sprawl.

These images represent a peak inside the suburbs of Shanghai. As China’s largest metropolis, it’s population bulging at 24 million, Shanghai is an emblem of the nation’s incredible economic miracle. Representative of contemporary China’s urbanism its vast suburbs are home to its workers, including the aspirational classes, those who having helped to achieve the country’s economic miracle.