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Record ID marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part39.utf8:209341047:3574
Source Library of Congress
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LEADER: 03574cam a2200409 i 4500
001 2012031157
003 DLC
005 20140613120127.0
008 120801s2013 nyuab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2012031157
020 $a9780415640718 (hardback)
020 $a9780203068021 (e-book)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $aa-cc---
050 00 $aNA7520$b.B97 2013
082 00 $a720.951$223
084 $aARC003000$aARC010000$aARC020000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aByrne Bracken, G.$q(Gregory)
245 14 $aThe Shanghai alleyway house :$ba vanishing urban vernacular /$cGregory Bracken.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c[2013]
300 $axiii, 183 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aRoutledge contemporary China series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 166-172) and index.
520 $a"This book takes the unique housing typology of the Shanghai alleyway house and discusses its role in Shanghai life. Gregory Bracken examines the architecture and history of the alleyway house, its part in the city's cultural and social development, it's portrayal in Chinese film and literature and the future of this unique urban dwelling as Shanghai's rapid redevelopment threatens to destroy the alleyway house, and therefore a slice of Chinese architectural and cultural history, altogether"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"As a nineteenth-century commercial development, the alleyway house was a hybrid of the traditional Chinese courtyard house and the Western terraced one. Unique to Shanghai, the alleyway house was a space where the blurring of the boundaries of public and private life created a vibrant social community. In recent years however, the city's rapid redevelopment has meant that the alleyway house is being destroyed, and this book seeks to understand it in terms of the lifestyle it engendered for those who called it home, whilst also looking to the future of the alleyway house. Based on groundwork research, this book examines the Shanghai alleyway house in light of the complex history of the city, especially during the colonial era. It also explores the history of urban form (and governance) in China in order to question how the Eastern and Western traditions combined in Shanghai to produce a unique and dynamic housing typology. Construction techniques and different alleyway house sub-genres are also examined, as is the way of life they engendered, including some of the side-effects of alleyway house life, such as the literature it inspired, both foreign and local, as well as the portrayal of life in the laneways as seen in films set in the city. The book ends by posing the question: what next for the alleyway house? Does it even have a future, and if so, what lies ahead for this rapidly vanishing typology? This interdisciplinary book will be welcomed by students and scholars of Chinese studies, architecture and urban development, as well as history and literature"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aRow houses$zChina$zShanghai.
650 0 $aVernacular architecture$zChina$zShanghai.
650 0 $aAlleys$zChina$zShanghai.
650 0 $aArchitecture and society$zChina$zShanghai.
651 0 $aShanghai (China)$xBuildings, structures, etc.
650 7 $aARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Residential.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aARCHITECTURE / Regional.$2bisacsh