A view of old houses surrounded by new apartment buildings in the Guangfuli neighborhood in Shanghai, China, on April 8, 2016. #

Li Guoqiang, 38, a deliveryman who rents a place in Guangfuli, talks on his phone outside his house on April 1, 2016. #

A boy rides a tricycle between partially-demolished houses in Guangfuli on March 28, 2016. #

Old houses stand in the walled Guangfuli neighborhood in Shanghai on April 8, 2016. #

A woman surnamed Xu watches TV in her eight-square-meter house where she lives with her husband in Guangfuli on April 19, 2016. #

Yueyue is held by her grandfather in an empty area outside their house in the Guangfuli neighborhood on April 1, 2016. #

A dog runs on the remains of old houses covered with a green net in Guangfuli on April 18, 2016. #

On April 1, 2016, a man shaves on the second floor of an old residential structure in Guangfuli. #

A man surnamed Xu, 50, holds a family portrait, at his place on April 8, 2016. Xu's whole family used to live under the same roof together in Guangfuli. #

A woman smokes as she starts her electric bike in Guangfuli on March 28, 2016. #

A sign board for a public toilet, attached to a utility pole in Guangfuli on March 28, 2016. #

Electric wires hang above a demolished old house in the Guangfuli neighborhood on April 19, 2016. #

A man surnamed Xu, 50, walks past a house with the Chinese character Chai, or demolition, painted on a wall in Guangfuli, on April 8, 2016. #

Tao Weiren sits in front of his two-story house inside the Guangfuli neighborhood in Shanghai on March 24, 2016. #

A man sits in an alley in Guangfuli on March 24, 2016. #

Women chat inside a store in Guangfuli on April 1, 2016. #

A man cleans the glass roof at the entrance of an apartment building constructed in 2004 after the demolition of old houses, beside Guangfuli, on April 8, 2016. #

A night view of the old houses of Guangfuli surrounded by new apartment buildings in Shanghai on April 10, 2016. #