香蜜湖公园

This guide to Xiangmi Lake Park in Shenzhen tells how a hillside agricultural research center, with lychee groves, fish ponds and a flower market, got left alone for thirty-five years while the city exploded into towers on every side. It follows what stayed the same while everything nearby changed, and traces the center's closure and the park's opening in the summer of 2017. Walk the palm avenue and look at the old lychee trees on the slope, planted long before the skyscrapers arrived.