Tianjin Ruins Hotel

Problem description:

From the satellite map, there seems to be loess between South Road and North Road. By the way, I'm not from downtown and I don't know the situation.

Analysis:

The box of Tianjin's old city is not big. Not only from the aerial photos, but even the latest version of Tianjin map clearly shows that it is already a "blank".

The real large-scale demolition of the old city box should be as early as 2003, but after that, basically, the old city box was razed to the ground. Recently, I saw that the streets of the south gate on the east and west sides of the reconstructed "Drum Tower" were also transformed into expressways. In this way, I'm afraid the historical features of the old city hall will be completely destroyed.

If the "Drum Tower" is the only cultural relic left, in fact, in the eyes of our orthodox Tianjin people, this so-called reservation seems to have little meaning: everything around it has been demolished, and a lonely thing is caught in the middle of the expressway, which is obviously "destruction".

If you look at the original urban area of Tianjin, there are many old buildings now, and Hongqiao District is near Xizhuang. But it will soon, because I can see from a bridge (at the ear door) that the background behind it is clearly "high-rise buildings" (if not just for visual effects). There are few other places, and they have all been demolished, not just the Drum Tower. But new buildings have been built in other places, and the land price in the old city is extremely high, so "regeneration" is not so easy.

Maybe what you said about "loess" is not unreasonable-I don't know if you are looking at the aerial photos of Google Earth. I've seen this before. A little bare. But now, these abandoned lands are generally covered with lawns, in order to prevent being laughed at by any foreigners from other places. If the aerial photos were taken in recent months, they should all be "green"!

Of course, on the whole, Tianjin's current construction is also very good, and its scale is unprecedented. In this "great development" period, Tianjin naturally gained a "resounding" title-"construction site city", or was dubbed "broken city". It is estimated that by the first half of 2008, everything will be completely new, but the old city hall is gone forever.