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Bangalore to me is unrecognizable..
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On the other hand, Bangalore was the outlier among the rapidly growing cities my daughter visited. Buenos Aires, Beijing, Shanghai, and Singapore are all growing UP. From her descriptions (and photos), Bangalore is not seeing skyscraper growth....something that must be cultural, although it may be because Bangalore is a small town of only 5 million.
I love this photo (and caption) from Bangalore:
http://flickr.com/photos/44658211@N00/329315009/
It's very different style of development than, say Beijing, which is city of high-rise apartment buildings or Shanghai, which my daughter says reminds her of Las Vegas.
As far as homeless, I think the most moving days of my daughter's trip were two days visiting shanty towns in Buenos Aires....huge neighborhoods that appear as empty spaces on all the maps (they don't exist).
Homelessness was in the category of topics that were "not talked about" in China.