Every bad place can be refurnished like a house. The only thing you need is the idea to change something, put the money into it and change the face of a Harbor, or City, or whatever part you want to change to attract more tourists. Nothing is impossible. And China has gone the way for change. The Bund in Shanghai is one of most famous tourist destinations of the City. And Now the Bund is back for tourism.
Shanghai: The Bund Is Back
Name: According to Wikipedia the name "Bund" means an embankment or an embanked quay, and comes from the Hindi word band, meaning an embankment, levee or dam (a cognate of English terms "bind," "bond" and "band," the German term "bund," etc.). "Bund" is pronounced to rhyme with "fund".
The term was brought to Shanghai by the family of Victor Sassoon, a Baghdadi Jew. There are many "bands" to be found in Baghdad, even today. There are numerous sites in India, China, and Japan which are called "bunds" (e.g. the Yokohama Bund). However, "The Bund" as a proper noun almost invariably refers to this stretch of embanked riverfront in Shanghai.
History:
The Shanghai Bund has lots of historical buildings, along the Huangpu River, that once housed numerous banks and trading houses from the United Kingdom, France, the United States, Russia, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands and Belgium, as well as the consulates of Russia and Britain, a newspaper, the Shanghai Club and the Masonic Club. The Bund lies north of the old, walled city of Shanghai. This was initially a British settlement; later the British and American settlements were combined in the International Settlement. A building boom at the end of 19th century and beginning of 20th century led to the Bund becoming a major financial hub of East Asia. The former French Bund, east of the walled city was formerly more a working harbourside.
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