Heideggerian Aletheia underpins the present reading of Shanghai’s lilong as fragile sites of memory, in which the material dimension of ruin and the immaterial dimension of everyday life prove inseparable. The essay reads authenticity not as an intrinsic quality of heritage, but as a constructed, negotiated and historically situated condition emerging from the interaction of form, use, memory and transformation. Lilong and shikumen are understood as a complex form of urban heritage: a historical infrastructure of metropolitan dwelling, hybrid in architectural, social and symbolic terms. The literature has highlighted their value not only in the persistence of the built fabric, but also in the atmosphere of the longtang and in the continuity of practices and forms of dwelling
Politecnico di Milano, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-3136-3838
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Xi’an Jiaotong University, China - ORCID: 0000-0001-7681-2484
Titolo del capitolo
Authenticity Regimes: Reuse, Urban Memory, and Design in Shanghai’s Lilong
Autori
Barbara Galli, Domenico D’Uva, Yubin Xu
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Inglese
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1113-0.20
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Anno di pubblicazione
2026
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Titolo del libro
ReUso 2026 - New heritage and future strategies. Perspectives on conservation and promotion
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14th International Congress Barcelona-Girona, 4-7 November
Curatori
Alessandro Scarnato, Marisa García Vergara, Ángeles Layuno Rosas
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2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Firenze University Press
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10.36253/979-12-215-1113-0
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979-12-215-1113-0
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979-12-215-1112-3
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