Jimolu District

   Jimolu is an area of the Qingdao cultural center. As Qingdao has been colonized by Germany its architecture is a real mixed between German architecture structures build with Chinese regional materials. Hopefully this history tresor survive to Chinese developpment and had been wildely investigate by Chinese community.

+ Who live in Jimolu?

Living here for many generations old people become attached to this area. By interviewing them I learned that their is three main reason why they don't want to move to brand new buildings:
- They can't find anywhere else a strong community as they have today. 
- Health: The old Chinese concept lead them to leave at the first floor ( close the earth ). Their are also affraid about elevator and can't use stairs.
-  Conveniency: Close to their market they can also get help from friends and don't want to discover a new area where they will need time to get used to their environment.

Most of those people are affraid about the future. They see more and more areas around erasing to build new roads or new buildings.

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At the opposite of my hypothesis, young people live their also. But this is for completely different reason. Indeed as real estate developper they speculate about the future of those district. Most of time they buy an appartment waiting for that the governement erased it and rehouse them in brand new one.