More NYC Photography
(Sorry for the long ugly link but I'm doing this on my phone.)
More pictures of NYC from around the turn of the century.
These pictures are fascinating to me because we know how NYC has evolved, but also because I wonder where Chongqing will be in 100 years. Chongqing is also a city of immigrants (mostly rural people* from the countryside) and many of them live in conditions similar to those depicted in these photos.
The evolution of architecture and living environments is worth studying, I think. There are other places that experienced similar evolutions, but NYC has done a great job documenting and archiving their history and making it accessible to the public.
*Those who have a rural hukou. So it's not just a social construction, it is their legal status within China.
