Shanghai: From City Factory to City Park

This photo is taken from my hotel room and aims to situate a reasonably big park that was nearby...

By the way this is my hotel room. It was in the Hengshan Picardie Hotel. About $120/night - inc a fantastic breakfast...

The park appears very well used. Has many different types of spaces.

It was Xujiahui Park - and was apparently constructed about ten years ago. According to the text on this sign-board a very large factory had occupied the site -  a rubber factory (I can imagine how happy the residents were when it closed down...).

It was also the site of a French Cinema Projector manufacturer. The only sturctures that remain are the smokestack from the factory and a cluster of brick officers from the french factory. All carefully interpreted.

I like the use of massive rocks. And here a couple receive dancing lessons in the background - imitated by the boy in the foreground...

Another of the entry ways into the park...

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