Focusing on the non-Western context and case studies, this book explores theories of interdisciplinary architectural thinking and the construction of urban memory in Chinese cities, with an emphasis on contemporary architecture and the diversity of agencies.

Yat Ming Loo is Associate Professor in Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. His research interests include intercultural architecture/city, postcolonial urbanism, urban memory, minority spaces and decolonising architecture. He is the author of Architecture and Urban Form in Kuala Lumpur: Race and Chinese Spaces in a Postcolonial City.

Hua Li is Professor and Deputy Director of Architectural History and Theory Research Institute, School of Architecture, at Southeast University, China. She has been interested in the relation between modernity and formation of architectural knowledge, history of modern Chinese architecture and cross-cultural practice of architecture.

Jing Xie is Associate Professor in Architecture and Built Environment, at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. With research interests in Chinese architecture and urbanism, he is the author of The Origin and Development of Dougong and Zaojing in Early China (2022), Chinese Urbanism: Urban Form and Life in the Tang-Song Dynasties (2020), Heritage-led Urban Regeneration in China (2017).

Eugenio Mangi is Assistant Professor in Architecture and Urban Design at the Department of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Nottingham Ningbo China. His research interests are sustainable and resilient urban and rural transformations, local community engagement and participation and urban policy impact.

Introduction (by editors)

Part 1 Theories and Methods of Remembering

Chapter 1: Urban Memory by Heart: A Cultural Question

Xing Ruan

­Chapter 2: Townscapes of Virtue: Urban Memory of Suzhou from Imperial China

Jing Xie

Chapter 3: Presencing Absence: History Memory Rewriting: Liu Kecheng's Interpretative Architecture

Laura Anna Pezzetti

Chapter 4: Memory, City, Language

Shiqiao Li

Part 2 Practices and Agencies of Remembering I: City-image and Urban Memory

Chapter 5: Remembering the Red Memories in Shanghai: Urban Memory Reconstructed for Shaping the Future of the City and the Nation

Yongyi Lu

Chapter 6: Exhibition, Institution, and the Urban Memory: The Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Centre and the Story of Making the City

Shih-Yao Lai

Chapter 7: Where the Dream Started: Branding Sea World and Shekou's Urban Memories in China

Fong Yi Khoo, Yat Ming Loo and Jonathan Hale

Part 3 Practices and Agencies of Remembering II: Architecture and Memory

Chapter 8: How Do We Forget Through Architecture?: A Case Study on the Reconstructed Jiming Monastery in Nanjing

Zhuge Jing and Chen Ting

Chapter 9: Decoding Urban Memory and Affect: Utopian and Anti-Utopian Narratives in Jiakun Liu's Novel and Architectural Works

Jiawen Han

Chapter 10: Invented Ruin, Concrete Memory: The Taizhou Contemporary Art Museum by Atelier Deshaus and the Shamen Grain Depot Cultural and Creative Park

Giaime Botti, Eugenio Mangi and Weixuan Chen

Part 4 Practices and Agencies of Remembering III: Everyday Life

Chapter 11: Subaltern Memories of the "Ghost" Street Market: Mapping the Vanishing Guishi in Tianjin

Yat Ming Loo and Yanning Xiang

Chapter 12: Revisiting Custom Bike Urbanism in China: An Opportunity to Revive Faded Urban Memories

Hiroyuki Shinohara

Chapter 13: From People's Park to Parks by the People

Jason Ho

Chapter 14: The Rise of "Individual Memories" in the Chinese City: The Refabrication of 29 Madao Street in Nanjing

Xiuxiu Li, Hua Li and Yipeng Wang