wall separating village from new housing development

this morning i walked through zhuguang village in xili, one of nanshan’s subdistricts. the further one gets from downtown and the nantou peninsula, the larger the villages and the less centralized the planning. in zhuguang, village industry abuts traditional housing abuts new village housing circa 1985 and 1995 abuts new upper middle class housing development… a wall separates village remnants from the new housing, segregating white collar families from migrant workers. in places like zhuguang, the process of partitioning off the remnants of older villages from the rest of the city is just starting and so easier to see. downtown, in contrast, the few remnant villages are completely walled in, except for a few doors. in shenzhen, this is the form of emergent ghettos: walled off villages, hidden from view behind high-rise complexes and rows of tiled new village housing. sense of layout, here.