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Photo Gallery: Shanghai, City of Contrast Part of the Places of a Lifetime series from Traveler magazine
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Fragile artifact, a decades-old apartment building defies—for now—the inexorable development that is transforming today’s go-go-go Shanghai.
Photograph by David Butow

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