Here is the link to a very interesting article in Foreign Policy Magazine about Chongqing (Chungking) China.
The slight Chicago connection is explained in the 6th paragraph from the end, on page 4.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/08/16/chicago_on_the_yangtze?page=0,0
Below are some of the photographs accompanying the article.
Matthew Niederhauser
A bridge under construction across the Yangtze River. There were no bridges before the 1960s ; now there are more than a dozen in the downtown area of Chongqing.
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above: A woman walks past Chongqing's futuristic opera house.
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above: Chongqing's citizens are hardly rich...their annual per capita income is $3,300 dollars....a third of Beijing's.
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above: Older apartment buildings soon to be replaced by mega-towers.
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above: Cable cars complement the system of bridges.
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Matthew Niederhauser
Matthew Niederhauser
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above: Model in the Urban Planning Exhibition Hall hopelessly out of date in only two years.
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