City Criticism: Shanghai

Author: Ge Hongbing
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: Architecture is frozen music, architecture is frozen history. People's appreciation and aesthetic ability for architecture are the high-level embodiment of their cultural quality. When people see the new appearance of Greater Shanghai and are moved by the grandeur of its large buildings, they should also be able to sense its connotation and view the harmony between it and the surrounding environment from a macro perspective. Famous figures of Haipai culture and architectural experts and scholars select one or a piece of architecture to review from a cultural perspective with a critical eye; does urban development necessarily have to tear apart history and cut off cultural traditions as a price? From their writings, the huge changes in Shanghai over the past decade can be clearly seen.