![]() | Improvised City: Architecture and Governance in Shanghai, 1843-1937 Subjects: Architecture and society -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 19th century; Architecture and society -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 20th century; Sociology Urban -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 19th century; Sociology Urban -- China -- Shanghai --; For nearly one hundred years, Shanghai was an international treaty port in which the extraterritorial rights of foreign governments shaped both architecture and infrastructure, and it merits examination as one of the most complex and influential urban environments of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Improvised City illuminates the interplay between the city's commercial nature and the architectural forms and practices designed to manage it in Shanghai's three municipalities: the International Settlement, the French Concession, and the Chinese city. Cole Roskam is associate professor of architectural history at the University of Hong Kong. |
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