Abstract:Research Article| March 01 2014 In a Field of Party Walls: Drawing Shanghai’s Lilong Renee Y. Chow Renee Y. Chow 1University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: This Site...Research Article| March 01 2014 In a Field of Party Walls: Drawing Shanghai’s Lilong Renee Y. Chow Renee Y. Chow 1University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2014) 73 (1): 16–27. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2014.73.1.16 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Renee Y. Chow; In a Field of Party Walls: Drawing Shanghai’s Lilong. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 March 2014; 73 (1): 16–27. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2014.73.1.16 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search When Deng Xiaoping initiated market reforms in 1978, reopening the country and inviting the newest phase of foreign investment in Chinese cities, the structure and scale of these cities changed dramatically. Today, the governing process rewards the official who can most rapidly transform his or her city into guoji dadushi, a “great international city.”1 With an unprecedented release of capital,2 China has built more—more skyscrapers and high-rises, more housing and malls, more rail systems and highways—than any other country in a thirty-year period.3 In Shanghai, the traditional lilong (alleyway or lane) housing compounds are being replaced by new gated communities of luxury housing towers surrounded by landscaped parks or paved parking (Figure 1). Widened streets, elevated highways, and spiraling approach ramps to suspension bridges impose a new, vehicular, logic on the city (Figure 2). On its expanding edges, rows upon rows of... You do not currently have access to this content.Read More
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-03-01
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