Urban Transitions in Shanghai - eBook in pdf
Architecture, Adaptive Reuse, and the Regenerative City
This book should be considered not as a closed document, but as part of an evolving framework for research, visualization, and design investigation on urban transitions and regenerative urbanism in contemporary China.
Shanghai is approached throughout this book not only as a case study but as an evolving urban laboratory through which to investigate the relationships between architecture, adaptive reuse, infrastructure, ecology, and urban transitions in contemporary China.
The atlas and visual materials included in this publication are part of an ongoing research platform investigating urban regeneration and urban transitions in Shanghai through architectural and design-oriented perspectives.
Mappings, diagrams, drawings, and comparative visualizations were developed through direct observation, fieldwork, archival research, photographic documentation, and knowledge visualization methodologies.
The research framework remains intentionally open, implementable, and continuously updatable, acknowledging the evolving and dynamic nature of urban transformation processes.
| Pagine | 256 |
| Data pubblicazione | Giugno 2026 |
| ISBN | 8891683625 |
| ean | 9788891683625 |
| Tipologia prodotto | Ebook |
| Sottotitolo | Architecture, Adaptive Reuse, and the Regenerative City |
| Collana | Politecnica |
| Editore | Maggioli Editore |
Introduction: Architecture, Urban Transitions, and Regeneration in Shanghai
Chapter 1 — Research Framework and Urban Transitions in Shanghai
1.1 Architectural Reuse and Urban Regeneration in the perspective of Knowledge Visualization and Urban Transition.
1.2 From Expansion to Regeneration: Shanghai’s Planning Transition (1986–2035)
1.3 Shanghai 2040: Urban Regeneration as an Operative Planning Paradigm
Chapter 2 — Design Culture and Regeneration Practices
2.1 Architectural and Urban Regeneration in Shanghai: Insights from Contemporary
Chinese Urban Discourse
2.2 SUSAS as an Urban Regeneration Laboratory: Cultural Strategies and Adaptive
Reuse in Shanghai
Chapter 3 — Atlas of Urban Regeneration in Shanghai
3.1 Methodology: Visualizing Urban Transitions in Shanghai
3.2 Structure and Representation of Case Studies
3.3 Thirty Case Studies. The Atlas
3.4 Typological Classification of Projects
Chapter 4 — Conclusions and Projective Vision
4.1 Adaptive Reuse and Zero-Growth Urban Development
4.2 Beyond the Atlas: Toward an Open Research Framework
4.3 Nature After Nature. Shanghai and the Construction of Artificial Ecology
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