This paper explores the early modernization of a medium-sized Chinese city, Ningbo. Based on the remapping of the street system in modern Ningbo by every 10 years from 1844 to 1936, the whole process of the late Qing and Republican eras was divided into two periods, with the port opening and the establishment of the municipal system as the critical junctures. The transformation and re-structuring of the street system limited to the walled city in the late Qing to a systematic one covering the whole urbanized area in the 1930s was explored. This transformation was driven by the construction of the Foreign Settlement in the Jiangbei area and then the introduction of municipal ideas by the local gentle and commercial group class.

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Urban Morphological Transformation in Modern Ningbo: Social Change and Street System

  • Panpan Jin,
  • Naoto Nakajima

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This paper explores the early modernization of a medium-sized Chinese city, Ningbo. Based on the remapping of the street system in modern Ningbo by every 10 years from 1844 to 1936, the whole process of the late Qing and Republican eras was divided into two periods, with the port opening and the establishment of the municipal system as the critical junctures. The transformation and re-structuring of the street system limited to the walled city in the late Qing to a systematic one covering the whole urbanized area in the 1930s was explored. This transformation was driven by the construction of the Foreign Settlement in the Jiangbei area and then the introduction of municipal ideas by the local gentle and commercial group class.