Everyone I talked to in China said that Teda was a postage-stamp sized city and nobody lives there. Those people were right, if by "nobody" they meant "millions of people."
Teda is an acronym for the Tianjin Economic Development Area. It's a city not unlike Silver Spring, Maryland if it sprawled on a bit more. The air in Teda is hard to breathe on a good day thanks to all the economic development happening there. John Deere has a factory there and the hospital burns its medical waste outside my mother-in-law's apartment building.
The funny thing about China is all the public art. You can't walk twelve feet in any city without walking into some public art, like this crocodile in a pond in Teda.
The other photos were shot from the mag-lev bullet train going from Beijing to Teda. The government is building massive blocks of high-rise apartments in the middle of nowhere next to the train tracks. Nuclear power plants are multiplying near these residences.
See all the scans from my China trip here on my Flickr.
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