The image above (brought to us by Michael) shows what once was a traditional hutong community that has been demolished in preparation for future urban builiding projects. Beijing used to be full of hutong communities before the construction boom began. These single-level communities were not efficient for urban planning, so many have been demolished and replaced by sky-skyscrapers, like the hutong in the picture above.
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