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Shanghai : the architecture of China's great urban center

Title
Shanghai : the architecture of China's great urban center / Jay Pridmore.
Author
Pridmore, Jay.
Publication
New York : Abrams, 2008.

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Description
159 pages : color illustrations; 31 cm
Summary
"In the last decade of the twentieth century, China determined that Shanghai would be its engine of modernization and economic growth. Leading architects, including Norman Foster, Paul Andreu, Adrian Smith, John Portman, Chang Yung Ho, and Ma Qingyun, were lured to design vastly ambitious projects. Out of a creative ferment fueled by impatient aspirations, soaring buildings in a riot of styles sprang up - often before planners could even map their neighborhoods. Change touched every corner of Shanghai with staggering speed, from its famed waterfront, the Bund, to the distant outskirts." "Author Jay Pridmore sets the story of Shanghai's burgeoning growth against its complex history, taking in the tensions between European colonialism and Chinese nationalism, capitalism and communism, development and preservation. After surveying the city's traditional Chinese and colonial architecture, he examines modernism's advancement there and, backed by a wealth of superb photographs, illustrates Shanghai's metamorphosis into one of the most vibrant and significant "new" cities of the twenty-first century."--Jacket.
Subject
  • 1900-2099
  • Architecture > China > Shanghai > History > 20th century
  • Architecture > China > Shanghai > History > 21st century
  • Architecture > China > Shanghai > 20th century
  • Architecture > China > Shanghai > 21st century
  • Architecture
  • Buildings
  • Architektur
  • Shanghai (China) > Buildings, structures, etc
  • China > Shanghai
  • Schanghai
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 157) and index.
Contents
Introduction to Shanghai -- Past and Present on the Bund -- Pudong: In Search of a Landmark -- Beyond the Bund: Puxi's Blend of Old and New -- Suburbs: Around the World and Back.
ISBN
  • 9780810994065
  • 0810994062
LCCN
2007035142
OCLC
  • ocn167764125
  • 167764125
  • SCSB-9760204
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library