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Drones used to photograph historic city sites

By Yang Meiping | 00:01 UTC+8 June 12, 2017 | Online Edition

MORE than 30 drones took off from Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall on Saturday, launching a program to take pictures of historic and cultural reservation areas across the city.

The program, co-organized by the planning exhibition hall, the city’s political advisory body, and a photographers’ association, is to mark China’s first Cultural and Natural Heritage Day.

Under the program, photographers expert in aerial photography are invited to record the “memories of the city” by taking photos of areas with historic and cultural features from Saturday until September 30.

The outstanding photos will then be selected and exhibited at the planning exhibition hall on October 31 — World Cities Day.

In 2004 and 2005, Shanghai listed 44 historic conservation areas with concentrated buildings covering more than 40 square kilometers.

Aerial photography is a new but popular technology and it is expected to provide a different angle for recording the large historic areas more completely and to raise public awareness in protecting them.

A series of postcards covering 30 classic old buildings designed by Laszlo Hudec were released by the planning exhibition hall on Saturday to commemorate the outstanding architect and to mark the Cultural and Natural Heritage Day.

Hudec lived in Shanghai from 1918 to 1947 and designed more than 100 buildings in the city. Thirty of them are on the protection lists of outstanding historical buildings.

The postcards were based on paintings of the 30 buildings by local artist Zhang Anpu. Each building has a QR code so people can scan it for further information.

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