In the Name of Conservation: Reflections on the Interpretation and Justification of China’s Urban Heritage Practices by Taking Shanghai’s Lilong Neighbourhoods as an Example

This thesis investigates the introduction, adaption, and implementation of the modern concept of heritage conservation in modern China after the opening of its treaty ports. Through an analysis of the different layers of disseminating and receiving knowledge in transnational exchanges, it explicitly points out the divergence between the...

Selections of vine structures and their applications

Copulas are important models that allow to capture the dependence among variables. There are many types of bivariate parametric copula families, which allow to model data sets with different properties: symmetric and asymmetric dependence, upper (lower) tail dependence. In higher dimensions popular families of copulas, e.g., Gaussian, Student-t...

Regular vines with strongly chordal pattern of (conditional) independence

Multivariate statistical models can be simplified by assuming that a pattern of conditional independence is presented in the given data. A popular way of capturing the (conditional) independence is to use probabilistic graphical models. The relationship between strongly chordal graphs and m-saturated vines is proved. Moreover, an algorithm to...

Roundtable I: Water and Heritage

动态的遗产策略：文化、经济、历史维度下的荷兰建筑遗产改造实践

The dynamic heritage strategy is an era choice to respond to the “modern monument paradox”. As a highly malleable concept, heritage, whether it is the concept itself or its related practices, has to be discussed, and criticized before recognition in a constant movement. The typical Dutch tolerant society has been facing the impact of...

Why Factory: The spatial significance of Architectural Education Buildings

The educational space of Architecture faculty is used to cultivate architects. At the same time, it becomes the carrier of architectural ideas and teaching methods. The type of architecture and its spatial organization reflect the architectural education philosophy and attitude. Back in history, as early as the Renaissance, there had emerged...

The Practice and Enlightenment of Architectural Renovation and Urban Renewal in the Netherlands

Since the development of architectural disciplines, Dutch architectural style and architects have played important role in the world. In the wave of local urban renewal in the Netherlands, Dutch architects represented by Rem Koolhass, Francine Houben, Winy Maas and Kees Kaan and etc. have shown rich practices and experiences, therefore, the...

Water Heritage in Asian Cities Symposium, 29 November – 1 December 2018, Shanghai, China

The Water Heritage in Asian Cities Symposium took place between 29 November and 1 December 2018, in Shanghai. In respond to the increasing water risks of a warming planet, four institutes SASS, UKNA, IIAS and NYU Shanghai organized the symposium drawing on their urban studies network in Asia and beyond. The symposium encouraged diversity in...

Dilemma Between Density and Quality: The demographic history of Sinan Road area

This paper investigates the unique urban planning history and demographic changes in Sinan Road (also named as Rue Massenet) Area of Shanghai and the socioeconomic impacts on local inhabitants’ living quality led by formal and informal planning dynamics. Examining both tangible and intangible characteristics of this area under five different...

Transformation of Urban Communities from Within: Residents’ Role in Lilong’s Attributive Switch Between Market-led Commodity and State-controlled Property

The state has owned most historical buildings since the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Residents within are entitled to the right to use the house in the form of a lease. After entering a free trade housing market in 1988, residents in historic neighbourhoods of Shanghai have been suffering uncertainty of their identities...

Report from the 18th International Planning History Society conference: 15–19 July 2018, Yokohama, Japan

Resilience of Dwellings and the Creation of Livable Historical Residential Areas in China

There are numerous traditional residential buildings in China, but only in the last sixty years have academics studied historic dwellings. Currently,<br/>there are four metropolises, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen in mainland China, and with a number of unique traditional residential areas,<br/>such as Hutong, Linong, and Qilou. In 1928,...