Binjiang Park

This guide to Binjiang Park in Shanghai starts with an iron anchor sitting alone on the lawn, once belonging to the Lixin Shipyard that built ships on this stretch of the Huangpu for more than seventy years. You'll hear how this bank of the river filled with warehouses and wharves after Shanghai's port opened to foreign trade in the 1840s, and how the 1990 declaration of Pudong as a special development zone emptied the shipyards and sent glass towers rising behind the old Bund instead. Look for the old shipyard wharf itself, kept as a viewing platform among the park's fountains.