Cole Roskam, Improvised City: Architecture and Governance in Shanghai, 1843-1937

Surprisingly, few studies of architecture and urbanism in English have presented a complete sweep of the turbulent history of the treaty port of Shanghai during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Christian Henriot’s Shanghai, 1927-1937 (1991) translated from the French in 1993, Leo Ou-fa...

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Publicado en:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/abe,
Autor Principal: Cowell, Christopher
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicado: ABE Journal 2020
Acceso en liña:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Résumé:Surprisingly, few studies of architecture and urbanism in English have presented a complete sweep of the turbulent history of the treaty port of Shanghai during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Christian Henriot’s Shanghai, 1927-1937 (1991) translated from the French in 1993, Leo Ou-fan Lee’s Shanghai Modern (1999), and Meng Yue’s Shanghai and the Edges of Empires (2006), have examined, in remarkably different registers, its burgeoning twentieth-century manifestations; while Sam...