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Title

Shanghai architecture / Anne Warr.

Author

Warr, Anne.

Publication

Sydney : Watermark Press, 2007.

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Details

Description

340 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps, plans, ports.; 26 cm.

Summary

"The transformation of Shanghai over the last few decades is breathtaking. At one point a third of the cranes used in the construction of high-rise buildings around the world were in Shanghai. So today the city has more skyscrapers than New York, and more than the whole of the West Coast of the United States." "In Shanghai Architecture the reader is shown both sides of this amazing city, in a carefully researched and thoughtfully illustrated book. Highly visible are the new steel and glass towers of modern Shanghai but then, in contrast, hidden beneath cobwebbed electric cables and air-conditioning units, are the original buildings of the old international settlements."--Jacket

Series Statement

Watermark architectural guides

Uniform Title

Watermark architectural guides.

Subjects

• Buildings > China > Shanghai
• Architecture > China > Shanghai

Note

• Includes index.
• Maps on end papers.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 322-323) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine derived contents note: Introduction 7 7 -- How to Use This Book 22 -- The Bund 25 -- Old City 71 -- French Concession 89 -- People's Square 155 -- Nanjing Road 169 -- Pudong 199 -- North 241 -- West 277 -- Shanghai Environs 285 -- Glossary 298 -- Shanghai Architectural Styles 308 -- Shanghai Architects 310 -- Street names, past and present 318 -- List of Shanghai Lilongs 320 -- Bibliography 322.

ISBN

9780949284761 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008371588

OCLC

• 191932909
• SCSB-11505183

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library