Informal Housing in Shanghai A Brief Introduction to its History
Abstract
Informal housing has in recent years been a topic in the research field of sociology in China. In the context of many negative and “stigmatizing†(Wu 2014: 67) reviews, informal settlements in Shanghai have been gradually torn down since the 1990s as part of urban development projects and redevelopment projects of old urban areas. The city administration tries to create a new, tidy and clearly structured cityscape and promotes the construction of modern, similar skyscrapers. Compared to these new housing estates, the chaotic texture, the self-developed structure and the enormously high-density space belong to the most distinctive characteristics of the informal settlement in Shanghai. These self-developed structures, the minimalist interior space, and the relationship with the environment are now rare and particularly interesting in the context of today’s architecture in Shanghai.
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