Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Non-Fiction 2017 | Page 26

History will not stop its pace of development . After experiencing lilong and garden houses , which direction will it follow ? I think the answer is high-rise apartments . Sharply due to the shortage of land resources and soaring population growth , the living space must give way to high-rise development .
Walking in today ' s Shanghai streets , high-rise buildings are everywhere , so people begin to miss those delicate buildings , old Shanghai period is liken to a finely crafted sketch , both on the shikumen mountain house , or the classical garden villa . A sum of an outline is the characteristic of that era , a kind of delicate balance under my amorous feelings , also it is a kind of secular to everyone ' s way of life . In fact , any building , as long as it is valuable from the moment it is built , is an independent life . It does no longer belong to a person and an owner , for it belongs to the whole society and the whole city . So , we are now going to the new world , come inside to tianzifang , we still can feel the time of old Shanghai .