The Shanghai Alleyway House: A Vanishing Urban Vernacular

by Gregory Byrne Bracken

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138833177
• ISBN13: 9781138833173
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"