From County Seat to Urban Village:A Brief Housing History of a Local Family in Nantou Old Town
By presenting the century-long housing practice of a local family in Nantou Old Town,this paper reviews the self-help modernization of traditional dwellings and subsequently their in-situ transformation into tenements for migrants when rapid urbanization took place from 1990s,showing an alternative way of China's comtamporary housing evolution.The shaping of this so-called urban village informal housing could be attributed to the sophisticated urban housing experience of Cantonese speaking area,where Hong Kong played a key role in modern time.
housing historytraditional dwellingself-help housinginformal housingurban villageNantou Old TownShenzhenHong Kong
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