Songjiang / Sijing Ancient town and Thames Town / British Style town in Shanghai Suburbs
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ส.ค. 2024
- I went exploring in the southwestern suburb of Songjiang where I visited an ancient town and a British style town called Thames town.
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I think the British town was built to attract the people in the mainland who haven’t had a chance to tour Europe-like a theme park, not necessarily for the foreign tourists or the British people living in China.
The town of Thames is predominantly made up of villas and is primarily inhabited by company executives, partners, and CEOs of large corporations. The town has also been developed into an open scenic area with castles, fountains, and squares, as well as many coffee shops, galleries, and art museums. During holidays and festivals, there are generally more tourists visiting the town.
that makes sense actually. Thank you for sharing. I did check with some locals and they said the same thing you said. Cheers. I hope you liked the video.
I rode my bike past it during the May holiday and you are right, it was soooooo busy.
I feel that this Thames town is geared towards the local tourists (to take photos) rather than the foreign tourists.
yea I think you are right.
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Really like your videos 💞. Saying hi from Nanjing, China 🇨🇳.
I will make a video in Nanjing this year
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a nice tour around Shanghai. Hang in there !
thank you for watching. Stay tuned I am uploading another video today.
thank you for showing us the tour to songjiang 😊
you are welcome. Songjiang is worth a trip back
British style town looks cool, love to visit China one day, let's hope the world sorts itself first!
You will be able to travel here soon enough I am sure. I will post a lot more China travel in the next few weeks.
good video CITY CHINA BIG
much appreciated
0:25 That copycat style is from the ancient Greece and Rome. They had great taste in arts and architecture. Their beauty and styles passed the test of time. People from all over still emulate them today. Unlike the current Western modern arts.
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Actually, I feel like it’s more Netherlands’s style rather than British.
agreed more
interesting point
Thinking about why Thames Town was built, if you look at it from the historical perspective of China, it makes sense to build in a style that looks like a town from the country the people you want to attract.
If we look at Hong Kong, Gulongnu in Xiamen, and the foreign concessions in Shanghai we see that when foreigners lived in China they built in a style of their home countries.
So what would Chinese developers logically assume “to attract them we should build in the style they are used to and comfortable with.”
oh yea that makes sense thanks for watching
For your info, a Canadian construction company went to china looking for business signed a contract to build Montreal replica in china for about US $1.0 billion. Don't know if the construction started or not .....
I am going to find out where that is and try to make a video there if they did finish it.
Looks chill over there...@
it is pretty cool.
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When the hell the British town 松江 built? Where were the vast open farm fields of rice, fruit and green vegetable joining with blue sky？I miss them 😂
Songjiang still has a lot of open spaces and clear skies.
Go to Wuzhen! Live in a B&B and go out eat. I liked it much better than Songjiang.
planning to go to wuzhen soon
Watch “Empire of the Sun” to understand the start of Thamestown
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I am glad you watched the video Louis. You are my biggest fan it seems lol. Stay tuned I am doing a bunch more before I go to Europe in July
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thanks for watching
It’s not true about the investment. I actually was part of the design team for this project at Atkins.
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I am glad you enjoyed the video
Did you get an opportunity to enter any residential properties? Do you have any idea of the current population and capacity? What was the transportation infrastructure like to get there and to navigate the area while there? Once you got to Thames Town were there any hotels?
There are hotels near Thames town. There are also a lot of residential properties. Songjiang itself is a couple million people
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That 청계천 is $hit water street back in old days in the early 1900 at Hanyang city which now Seoul. Just 2 let U know if U didn't knew about it. Happy gobble gobble 🦃🍗 day.
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same as every country china town is not china vibe and very weird too， like 200years ago lol
honestly it's just a view and foreign vibe and take photos
remember the opium wars and 8 nation alliance the west came to china and colonised the cities thats why these cities like shanghai have all these aka copy cat western style buildings
Its inconvenient if one doesn't read Chines. If the intended sites are closed, then do t bjane others fir not knowing before hand! The Thames Town used to be part of British concessions . Now its just a relic. One shoukdnt exoect
Red Coats standing guard .
Oh ok, that is interesting. Thanks for sharing. I plan to do more videos in songjiang this year.
No, incorrect. thames town was not part of the former british concessions. It was constructed in the 2010s. If you are interested there is a walking video of thames town on my channel. you can watch it and clearly see its been built recently.
Copycat 😂😂🤣🤣
哎哟， perhaps its just interesting. next week im going to a secret tourist spot in china, that has chinas best food
Like Chinatown in western, not real China.
yea, you are right
我是建筑师，最不欣赏新复古建筑和拷贝外国古典建筑的行为。。每座建筑应该反映出时间和空间背景。。这些伪古典伪西洋更适合建在游乐园吧。。
虽然现在看上去有些古怪，但以后可能会成为经典，想想西方模仿中国的园林
也不一定吧，很多欧美的建筑确实很漂亮，比如华为的很多研究院就全部采取欧洲建筑风格，没有采用中式的，确实好看，看看欧洲农村房子真好看，中国农村房子丑死了，家家逗死两层楼板房
@@jimmywang525 欧洲古典有其历史背景，现代欧洲人虽然尊重自己的建筑史，也不愿再拷贝了。因为跟任何艺术一样，建筑艺术也最注重创新！每个时代都应该有每个时代的精神。你可以去传承，但要在传统基础上再发展，而不是模仿复制。。华为的研究中心可惜了。。作为一个科技公司，在建筑方面居然不提倡创新！
谢谢你的分享。接下来我还会去中国更多的地方，所以如果你喜欢中国你可以关注一下
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I am glad you enjoyed the video