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Housing Overview
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• Expatriate Housing Areas
The
Huangpu River, splits Shanghai in two parts.
Pudong means "east" (of the
river), it's a big new developed area, and
Puxi means "west" (of
the river), it normally refers to Downtown and also means "Old
Shanghai". Bridges and tunnels connect two sides.
Shanghai
has 19 districts, each is different and abnormal in size or shape,
scattered in spacious area of the city and its suburbs. Rather than this
complex frame, we have a simple map for expatriate housing areas in
Shanghai.
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Pudong:
wide area east
of river, well developed since 1998
◦ Downtown(Puxi):
the old
town west of river, the city and the center
◦ Hongqiao:
area west of Downtown, well developed since 1990
◦ West
Suburbs:
West out of Hongqiao, recent developments
Further than this, expatriate
housings tend to cluster in a few particular locations in each area, in
fact most expatriates live in a narrow area (marked in the map) from
west to east in Shanghai.
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