Baotou, also known as ‘the Steel City of the Gobi’, is known for its large-scale production of steel. The lake in this photograph was built to contain the waste from the steel-making process. Every year the lake rises higher, so the walls that contain it also have to be rebuilt. They have been rebuilt several times over the years, each time higher than the time before. The lake and its retaining walls serve as a poignant monument to the age of globalised capitalism.
In 2017 the LaTuna Wildfire scorched over 7,000 acres in the Verdugo Mountains on the outskirts of Los Angeles. It was the largest wildfire inside the city of Los Angeles in 50 years. This photograph was taken from Mulholland Drive, looking across the city of Burbank.
Guangzhou, China. 2015. Two men fish in the pond of the village of Xian, located in the center of Guangzhou City. Local villagers and real estate developers have been arguing for more than 7 years over the compensation payable for the right to redevelop the village. Villagers claim that this compensation is uneven, and accuse the village leaders of corruption. The plight of Xian village can serve as an epitome of the stresses and strains inherent in China's urbanization process.
This village in the city center of Guangzhou, China, should have been redeveloped 15 years ago. The work remains far from finished. Many of the village’s residents still live in these squalid surroundings.
A natural hill is flattened to erect a concrete jungle in an upmarket township in North Mumbai.
A cloud of fumigation smoke billows by the edge of a swimming pool inside a housing estate. Mosquito larvae tend to breed in slow moving and stagnant water, and these urban swimming pools make ideal breeding grounds. Using a targeted control method such as fogging keeps the number of mosquitoes down.
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