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Built in Shenzhen

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This is a follow-up post to Landing in Shanghai. Thanks to Savannah for draft edits. While in Shanghai, I was told a few times Shenzhen is a planned city: car-centric, not walkable at all, completely unlike Shanghai’s dense interconnected streets. I was picturing, and somewhat bracing for an industrial city; pedestrian-unfriendly and unappealing. Shanghai was cold, so I was also expecting cold in Shenzhen as well, forgetting about the difference 2.

This is a follow-up post to Landing in Shanghai. Thanks to Savannah for draft edits. While in Shanghai, I was told a few times Shenzhen is a planned city: car-centric, not walkable at all, completely unlike Shanghai’s dense interconnected streets. I was picturing, and somewhat bracing for an industrial city; pedestrian-unfriendly and unappealing. Shanghai was cold, so I was also expecting cold in Shenzhen as well, forgetting about the difference 2.5 hours south by plane can make. CJ (cjpais.com) and I on our way to Shenzhen at 6am in a spaceship coffee shop Spaceship coffee shop was rad…

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