The Chinese Colonial Cities

The Chinese Colonial Cities

 1.  Theory of Colonial Cities

a.   Modern colonial activity
b.   Colonialism, dependency and globalization
c.   Power and space
d.   Post-colonialism and the culture identity
e.   Colonial urban form as the representation of:
        - Power structure of the dominant
        - Mode of production of the new structure
        - Colonizer’s culture and ideology
        - Appropriation of local culture





 2.  Shanghai 上海 

a.   The old city, the concession and the bund
b.   Road construction, land development and urban grid
c.   The Li-long fabric 里弄，弄堂
d.   The planning by the Japanese and the Republic
e.   New Shanghai and the Pudong planning

Location of the pre-colonial walled town

Shanghai Walled City

Map of Shanghai 1901

Map of Shanghai 1943

The Bund 1849

The Bund 1864

The Bund 1923

The Bund 1928

The Bund 1930s

Transformation of the Urban Fabric

Building along the Bund

The Bund

The HSBC Headquarter                                                    The Bank of China

Road construction, land development and urban grid  Source:《中華中毒》, 松村伸

Nanjing Road 1901

Nanjing Road

Sichuan Road

Nanjing Road

Huaihai Road

The Li-long Fabric

The Li-long Fabric

The Great Shanghai Planning

60’s and 70’s workers’ accommodation

The Bund

The Suzhou River                                                Puxi and Pudong

Lujiazui Financial Center’s final scheme

Century Plaza, looking west

The northern half of People’s Square in the 1950s and at present

Shanghai Xin Tiandi

Huangpu River

Shanghai’s cityscape: new high-rises and fabric of Linong

 3.  Tianjin 天津 

a. The old city and the concession
b. River, railway and urban grid

The map of Tianjin 1897

The map of Tianjin 1846

Map of Tianjin

Expansion of concessions by road extension 越界築路

The concessions in Tianjin

Urban Fabric of Tianjin

The Chartered Bank of India  麦加利银行

Quan Ye Department Store 劝业场

Tailai House Hotel  泰莱饭店

  4.Guangzhou 廣州

The Thirteen Hongs, Guangzhou

The Thirteen Hongs, 1800

The Thirteen Hongs, Guangzhou

The Thirteen Hongs (Source from:  Liu & Tai, 2010)

The Thirteen Hongs, 1858

Urban fabric, Guangzhou

Guangzhou, 1900 (Source from:  Liu & Tai, 2010)

Plan of Shameen, published in 1938

Plan of Shameen, published in 1938

Urban Fabric, Guangzhou (Source from:  Liu & Tai, 2010)

Typical Plan of Guangzhou arcade

Aiqun Hotel, 1937

Guangzhou

Guangzhou Urban Master Plan, 1991-2010

5. Wuhan 武漢

Map of Wuhan

Hankou, 1876

Hankou, 1918

Urban Block of Wuhan

Wuhan

  

6.Taipei 台北

a. The old city and the Fengshui discourse
b. The Japanese planning and the new axis
c. The Republic and the Nationalist style
d. Community and the Grassroot movement

Location of Taipei

Urban Planning  of Taipei 1905

Urban block  of historical Taipei

Taipei

Taipei

 7. Qingdao 青島,  Dalian 大連，Harbin 哈爾濱 Shenyang 瀋陽 and Changchun 長春

The railway cities

Map of Dalian, 1900

Map of Dalian, 1919

Map of Dalian, 1933

The Plaza, Dalian, 1925

The Russian Street, Dalian,1904

The Plaza, Dalian, 1916

The Japanese commercial area, Dalian, 1934

The headquarter of the South Manchuria
Railway Company

Harbin 哈爾濱

Map of Harbin, 1902

Map of Harbin, 1930

The Bund of Harbin, 1920

The urban fabric and railway

The avenue in front of the railway station

The Market

The Nikolaikirche Plaza

 Shenyang 瀋陽

Map of  Fengtian (Shenyang), 1933

Map of Fengtian (奉天, today’s Shenyang) Fu

Russian Railway District

Japanese Railway District 1915

Japanese Railway District 1925

Japanese Railway District 1937

The Square

浪速廣場 Langsu Square

Fengtian Yi 奉天驛

The Central Street 中街

Changchun 長春

General plan for Changchun, 1912

Changchun land usage  in the Manchurian railway settlement, 1925

General plan for Xinjing, 1940

Zhongyang Tong (Today’s Renmin Road)

Changjiang Road in 1840s

8. Macau and Hong Kong

.a.   Double city
b.   Urban space of “the other
c.   Coloane 路環 

 

Macau

Macau