The Bund or Waitan "Outer Beach" is a waterfront area in central Shanghai. The word bund means an embankment or an embanked quay and is found along waterfront areas of numerous other cities. The Shanghai Bund centers on a section of Zhongshan Road within the former Shanghai International Settlement, which runs along the western bank of the Huangpu River in the eastern part of Huangpu District. 

The area along the river faces the modern skyscrapers of Lujiazui in the Pudong District. The Bund usually refers to the buildings and wharves on this section of the road.

The Shanghai Bund has dozens of historical buildings, lining the Huangpu River, that once housed numerous banks and trading houses from the United Kingdom, France, the United States, Italy, 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 1,700-meters long flood-control wall, known as "the lovers' wall," located on the side of Huangpu River from Huangpu Park to Xinkai River and once was the most romantic corner in Shanghai in the last century. After renovation, the monotone concrete buildings that lovers leaned against in the past have been improved into hollowed-out railings full of romantic atmosphere. 

The bund is one of the most prominent features when viewed from the Shanghai World Financial Center in Pudong and its observation deck on the 100th floor. 
Most of the buildings along the bund are identified at: Wikipedia

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OUR PREVIOUS WALK ALONG THE BUND
From our 2013 China Adventure
China Gallery 46

Walking Shanghai's Bund