Housing Prototypes for a Landscape of Change

Qing Cun is one hour to the south of downtownShanghai. Shanghai has gone through a period of rapid urbanization in the last 25 years, and while seemingly the opposite, Qing Cun is as much a landscape of change as the city center. Most of the working age population has left to find jobs elsewhere, leaving behind the elderly and migrant workers who rent the cheap housing. Qing Cun is a modest example of a traditional Jiangnan “water town”, which dot the region just south of the Yangtze River. The town government has replaced some of the historic structures with new ones, and while they are an improvement for the inhabitants, they represent a tremendous loss of architectural and material richness.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AMP.105.15

Volume Editors
Luis Francisco Rico-Gutierrez & Martha Thorne

ISBN
978-1-944214-07-4