1st Edition
The Shanghai Alleyway House A Vanishing Urban Vernacular
By Gregory Bracken
Copyright 2013
200 Pages
51 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
200 Pages
51 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
200 Pages
51 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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As a nineteenth-century commercial development, the alleyway house was a hybrid of the traditional Chinese courtyard house and the Western terraced one. Unique to Shanghai, the alleyway house was a space where the blurring of the boundaries of public and private life created a vibrant social community. In recent years however, the city’s rapid redevelopment has meant that the alleyway house is... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Shanghai History 3. Typogenesis 4. Architecture 5. Social Life 6. Cultural Life: Film and Literature 7. What Future for the Shanghai Alleyway House?
Biography
Gregory Bracken is an Instructor and Researcher at the Delft School of Design and a Research Fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies, both in the Netherlands.
