1920s Build Out in the Great Western Roads Area

The build out of the extra-settlement areas of the Great Western Road area or Huxi (or the Badlands) just beyond the Shanghai settlements was in full force in the 1920s. It was a desirable area and the Asia Realty Company was one of the leading developers. Here they advertise their new residences of a style typical in the Western Roads area and Frenchtown. And very nice they are too and a few have even escaped the rapacious communist bulldozer. Columbia Circle is still pretty intact up on the old Columbia Road (Panyu Road) around the junction with Amherst Avenue (Xinhua Road).

A small note – you can see that the rather annoying tendency to refer to the ground floor in Shanghai as the first floor now is not traditional as these plans include a proper ground floor.