China

Longtang

A demolished home in a traditional "Longtang" neighborhood, in Shanghai, China. The Longtangs are slowly dissapearing to make way for skyscrapers. The boom in Construction has been fueled by a tripling in property values since 1998 and government policy that moved 300 million people -- almost the entire population of the U.S. -- into cities since 1995. (Douglas Engle/Australfoto)

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