Location: Dalian, Liaoning, China
ALAMY Image ID:3B2DWJ7
A broad avenue opens onto Zhongshan Square in 1939 Dalian, framed by Western-style façades with domes and stone cornices. Ornate streetlamps, tram tracks, and a web of overhead lines chart a modern city grid, while pedestrians and an early motorcar scale the scene. The image captures a port city balancing cosmopolitan ambition with the clean geometry of early twentieth-century urban planning.
