Improvised city : architecture and governance in Shanghai, 1843-1937 / Cole Roskam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roskam, Cole, author.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Urban.

History.

Architecture and society.

Shanghai (China)--Politics and government--19th century.

Shanghai (China).

Shanghai (China)--Politics and government--20th century.

China--Shanghai.

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--History--20th century.

Politics and government.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 293 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2019]

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Architecture of Extraterritoriality p. 17

Chapter 2 Commemoration and the Construction of a Public Sphere p. 53

Chapter 3 Building a Shanghai Public p. 79

Chapter 4 Regulation, Professionalization, and Race p. 105

Chapter 5 Engineering "Face" in an Emergent Chinese Nation-State p. 130

Chapter 6 National Architects, National Architecture p. 160

Chapter 7 A Contested Municipality p. 175

Chapter 8 Exhibiting a Modern Chinese Architecture p. 196.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Roskam, Cole, author. Improvised city

ISBN:

9780295744780

0295744782

9780295744797

0295744790

OCLC:

1057241468