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Authenticity Regimes: Reuse, Urban Memory, and Design in Shanghai’s Lilong

  • Barbara Galli
  • Domenico D’Uva
  • Yubin Xu

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

  • Keywords:
  • Authenticity,
  • Adaptive reuse,
  • Lilong/shikumen,
  • Urban heritage,
  • Shanghai,
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Barbara Galli

Politecnico di Milano, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-3136-3838

Domenico D’Uva

Politecnico di Milano, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-0600-741X

Yubin Xu

Xi’an Jiaotong University, China - ORCID: 0000-0001-7681-2484

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Authenticity Regimes: Reuse, Urban Memory, and Design in Shanghai’s Lilong

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Barbara Galli, Domenico D’Uva, Yubin Xu

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