Main entry:

Roskam, Cole, author.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2019]
©2019

Description:

viii, 293 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
"A Samuel and Althea Stroum book"
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Architecture of Extraterritoriality -- Chapter 2. Commemoration and the Construction of a Public Sphere -- Chapter .3 Building a Shanghai Public -- Chapter 4. Regulation, Professionalization, and Race -- Chapter 5. Engineering "Face" in an Emergent Chinese Nation-State -- Chapter 6. National Architects, National Architecture -- Chapter 7. A Contested Municipality -- Chapter 8. Exhibiting a Modern Chinese Architecture -- Epilogue. A Return to Order.

ISBN:

9780295744780 hardcover alkaline paper
0295744782 hardcover alkaline paper
9780295744797 paperback alkaline paper
0295744790 paperback alkaline paper

Subject:

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.
Architecture et société Chine Shanghai Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture et société Chine Shanghai Histoire 20e siècle.
Sociologie urbaine Chine Shanghai Histoire 19e siècle.
Sociologie urbaine Chine Shanghai Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture and society.
Politics and government.
Sociology, Urban.
Architektur
Verwaltung
Shanghai (China) Politics and government 19th century.
Shanghai (China) Politics and government 20th century.
China Shanghai.
Schanghai

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 305464
Call No.: BIB 251300
Status: Available