Built in Shenzhen

This is a follow-up post to Landing in Shanghai. Thanks to Savannah for draft edits. While in Shanghai, I was told a few times Shenzhen is a planned city: car-centric, not walkable at all, completely unlike Shanghai’s dense interconnected streets. I was picturing, and somewhat bracing for an industrial city; pedestrian-unfriendly and unappealing. Shanghai was cold, so I was also expecting cold in Shenzhen as well, forgetting about the difference 2.