The converse of China’s rapid construction and development is a huge, patchwork demolition economy. In order to make room for the high-rises and hypermarkets, the country’s narrow residential alleyways (hutongs) and other fixtures of Old China need to be razed and repurposed. The old buildings are marked, and then come the heavy machines and scavengers [...]

Via Anelli is a complex of six buildings in Padova, a rich city in the north of Italy, that were originally aimed to become student residence. However most of the apartments ended up being occupied by prostitutes and drug dealers and, with the increase of immigration, were rent to immigrants, both formal [...]