How long can Beijing's biggest artist colony survive?

Politics and urban development are suffocating Songzhuang, China’s biggest artist colony – and now Beijing’s city government has decided to move in down the roadArriving into Songzhuang, you’d be forgiven for wondering what had attracted over 5,000 artists to make this far outpost of Beijing the largest artist colony in China.Along the dusty main street, a line of boxy, low-rise buildings housing cheap restaurants and shops is disrupted occasionally by a brutalist gallery