By taking the Laochengxiang area,the lilong houses,the Bund and the industrial heritage as typical examples,this paper discusses the problems related to the conservation and regeneration of built heritage in Shanghai ...By taking the Laochengxiang area,the lilong houses,the Bund and the industrial heritage as typical examples,this paper discusses the problems related to the conservation and regeneration of built heritage in Shanghai against the backdrop of large-scale urban development and the transformation of historic spaces in the city since the 1990s.It analyses the contradiction between development and heritage conservation in the process of urban redevelopment,and proposes a resolution to such problems.Furthermore,the paper has a reflection and analysis on the specific historical context of Shanghai as a metropolis and its changes from the past to the present.展开更多
Urban planning in India is heir to a colonial paradigm that imposed practices developed from the experiences of Western urbanisation to the local Indian context.This paper suggests that this paradigm exacerbates the c...Urban planning in India is heir to a colonial paradigm that imposed practices developed from the experiences of Western urbanisation to the local Indian context.This paper suggests that this paradigm exacerbates the complex problems of contemporary urbanisation,but there is little attempt among Indian urban planners to acknowledge and address the consequences of their colonial legacy.The forces of globalisation are reinforcing this postcolonial intellectual malaise by reposing greater faith in capital-and technology-intensive solutions to solve problems instead of reforming the inherited processes of urban management.This paper argues that the nascent field of urban conservation in India offers the potential to review the dominant paradigms of urban planning and develop more context-specific and appropriate strategies for tackling the problems of Indian urbanisation.展开更多
The relationship between the old and the new is a specific theme of architecture that bears witness not so much to the original appearance of the old but to its enduring meaning in historic Italian and European cities...The relationship between the old and the new is a specific theme of architecture that bears witness not so much to the original appearance of the old but to its enduring meaning in historic Italian and European cities.The complex palimpsest of signs,memories,and overwriting that time has layered on built forms opens questions of meaning that can be untangled only in the relationship between history,site and design.The investigation of structural characters of places and their relationships with cultural assets and heritage provides a layered set of readings,which is itself the forerun of an urban landscape design action.Beyond preserving the integrity of the material traces,there can only be the new.The test bench is therefore the project as a cognitive act around which to build‘case by case’the strategies for recovering urban identity.The series of projects for Cesano Maderno old town,north of Milan,exemplifies a design-led approach to the built heritage and historic urban landscape in which reading tools,conservation and design are shown in their mutual relationship.In this dialectic between the old and the new,the design is part of the architecture of time where the new,working through light reversible overwriting and measured grafting,becomes a further layer in the historical palimpsest and the authentic form of its enhancement and reuse.Integrating project strategies-from pure conservation to new architectural grafting,from reuse to overwriting-the sequence of designs give shape to a‘regenerative structure’that enhances as a system and for public use a set of introverted Baroque buildings and spaces along a historical promenade,re-centring the city around its brownfield core.展开更多
文摘By taking the Laochengxiang area,the lilong houses,the Bund and the industrial heritage as typical examples,this paper discusses the problems related to the conservation and regeneration of built heritage in Shanghai against the backdrop of large-scale urban development and the transformation of historic spaces in the city since the 1990s.It analyses the contradiction between development and heritage conservation in the process of urban redevelopment,and proposes a resolution to such problems.Furthermore,the paper has a reflection and analysis on the specific historical context of Shanghai as a metropolis and its changes from the past to the present.
文摘Urban planning in India is heir to a colonial paradigm that imposed practices developed from the experiences of Western urbanisation to the local Indian context.This paper suggests that this paradigm exacerbates the complex problems of contemporary urbanisation,but there is little attempt among Indian urban planners to acknowledge and address the consequences of their colonial legacy.The forces of globalisation are reinforcing this postcolonial intellectual malaise by reposing greater faith in capital-and technology-intensive solutions to solve problems instead of reforming the inherited processes of urban management.This paper argues that the nascent field of urban conservation in India offers the potential to review the dominant paradigms of urban planning and develop more context-specific and appropriate strategies for tackling the problems of Indian urbanisation.
文摘The relationship between the old and the new is a specific theme of architecture that bears witness not so much to the original appearance of the old but to its enduring meaning in historic Italian and European cities.The complex palimpsest of signs,memories,and overwriting that time has layered on built forms opens questions of meaning that can be untangled only in the relationship between history,site and design.The investigation of structural characters of places and their relationships with cultural assets and heritage provides a layered set of readings,which is itself the forerun of an urban landscape design action.Beyond preserving the integrity of the material traces,there can only be the new.The test bench is therefore the project as a cognitive act around which to build‘case by case’the strategies for recovering urban identity.The series of projects for Cesano Maderno old town,north of Milan,exemplifies a design-led approach to the built heritage and historic urban landscape in which reading tools,conservation and design are shown in their mutual relationship.In this dialectic between the old and the new,the design is part of the architecture of time where the new,working through light reversible overwriting and measured grafting,becomes a further layer in the historical palimpsest and the authentic form of its enhancement and reuse.Integrating project strategies-from pure conservation to new architectural grafting,from reuse to overwriting-the sequence of designs give shape to a‘regenerative structure’that enhances as a system and for public use a set of introverted Baroque buildings and spaces along a historical promenade,re-centring the city around its brownfield core.
