近代厦门英租界的城市发展和西方建筑传播

Urban Space and Western Architecture at the British Settlement in Xiamen in Modern History

1843年厦门开埠后,厦门英租界较早开辟,并先于鼓浪屿公共租界成为当时新的城市商业中心。厦门英租界的建设和发展,打破了以厦门老城区为中心的传统格局,城市由此开始向厦门岛西南滨水地带延伸发展。外人在厦门英租界建造的殖民式建筑,也成为19世纪下半叶西方建筑在厦门早期传播的重要部分之一。

Xiamen city was opened to the West in 1843. Modern architectures first appeared at the British Settlement, where had been developed into the new urban commercial center before the Kulangsu International Settlement. After that the city began to expand to the southwest seaside area, beyond the traditional old city. By the end of the 19th century, as the foreign settlers had built up large amounts of colonial style buildings there, the British Settlement became one of the two important areas in the city where western architectures were mainly located.