城市更新中的上海城市遗产及其保护

过去的10年间,上海、尤其是中心城区的历史保存专题,一直在致力于从传统的精英保护模式向文化上开放、经济上协作的城市遗产再生模式的转变。对比旧区改造背景下的1997年"新天地"城市再开发、到卢湾区47街坊花园洋房区的完整修复保护,直至田子坊、绍兴路街区等更为综合、参与方式更多元的城市振兴,可以清楚地看到一个趋势:不仅依赖卓越的保护和修缮技术,同时承载着各种不同价值立场的社会角色在相互接近,他们的多元共生赋予了当代历史保护的特色和意义,即如何处理保护和发展的冲突问题,以及如何实现保护和改造行动的利益共享问题等。     

Tales from the Other Side of the Bridge: YMCA Manhood,Social Class and Social Reform in Turn‐of‐the‐Twentieth‐Century Philadelphia

This article examines the interplay of gender and class ideologies at University House, a settlement house run by University of Pennsylvania Christian Association students in Philadelphia. University House exemplified a pioneering national movement to inculcate social responsibility in college youth. As an initiative sponsored by a campus Christian Association that joined a national YMCA movement to evangelise college campuses, the settlement had a unique agenda. The settlement's advocates intended to reform the neighbourhood's working‐class Irish Catholic boys, but also to forge character and manhood in the students who worked there. Moreover, settlement leaders and volunteers preached a brand of manhood steeped in the rhetoric of evangelical Protestantism, an ideal that guided their actions among city boys. Though their publicly stated mission was to make men of city youths, they turned manhood into a tool for preserving class distinctions and cementing their own place among the country's educated élite. Meanwhile, they modified their own definitions of manhood through the practice of social reform.     

“近代中国的城市·乡村·民间文化”学术研讨会综述

“近代中国的城市·乡村·民间文化”———首届中国近代社会史国际学术研讨会于2005年8月9—11日在青岛举行。这次研讨会由中国社会科学院近代史研究所、青岛大学主办,首都师范大学、山东大学、中山大学、山西大学、苏州大学、贵州师范大学等单位协办。来自美国、日本、韩国、新加坡、中国港澳台与内地的100余名学者参会,提交论文90余篇。这是1980年代中期中国社会史复兴以来,中国内地举办的首次比较全面涵盖近代社会史领域的学术研讨会。社会史复兴20年来,在中国社会史学会举办的10届学术年会上,近代社会史的比重不断增加,吸引了越来越多…     

American Manhood and the Rhetoric of War

Book reviewed in this article:
Kristin L. Hoganson, Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars     

Brutalism Redux: Relational Monumentality and the Urban Politics of Brutalist Architecture

Brutalism is an architectural form that is experiencing somewhat of a revival of late. This revival focuses almost purely on its aesthetics, but there is an ethical dimension to Brutalism that often gets overlooked in these narratives. This paper therefore reanalyses the original concepts and ethics of brutalist architecture with a reaffirmation of the original triumvirate of brutalist ethics as articulated by Raynar Banham as monumentality, structural honesty and materials “as found”. The paper then articulates these through the literature on architectural affect to argue that brutalist ethics are continually “enacted” via a relational monumentality that brings the building and its inhabitants together in the practice of inhabitation. Using the case study of Robin Hood Gardens in London, the paper posits that a “brutalist politics” comes into light that can help catalyse a broader critique of contemporary neoliberalism.     

Case del fascio and the Making of Modern Italy

Abstract

In recent decades, scholars of modern Italy have identified Fascism’s effort to establish a new society as a hallmark of the regime’s engagement with modernism. Fascist party headquarters (case del fascio), the primary institution through which the party aimed to alter the character, habits, and attitudes of its citizens in the making of Fascist Italy, are largely absent from this discourse, despite their extraordinary importance to the regime. Through an analysis and discussion of the regime’s building activity in the rapidly developing working-class neighborhoods on the edge of nineteenth-century Milan, the city most closely associated with modern ways of life in the interwar period (and still today), this paper provides an opportunity to explore the ways in which the amenities, design, and location of party-controlled outposts were intended to advance the party’s objectives and communicate Fascism’s central place in the making of a modern urban landscape in the regime’s final decades.     

“近代中国与近代文化”研讨会综述

“近代中国与近代文化”学术研讨会于2007年6月30日至7月1日在北京师范大学举行,李文海、金冲及、胡绳武、刘桂生、张海鹏、耿云志等著名学者和来自中国社会科学院近代史研究所、北京大学、清华大学、中国人民大学、复旦大学、南京大学、中山大学等单位的上百名专家参加会议。与会者围绕大会主题,就近代中国的文化思潮、学术史、社会文化、教育、宗教、中外文化交流等专门领域中的诸多问题,展开热烈研讨,提出了不少富有学术价值的观点。提交会议的高质量论文甚多,限于篇幅,兹仅摘录部分学术观点。在文化思潮研究方面,与会者论及现代性建构、…     

Conceptual Debts: Modern Architecture and Neo-Thomism in Postwar America

This article analyzes the formative role of medieval theology and aesthetics in the development of postwar American architecture by focusing on the architectural theory and practice of Mies van der Rohe and Jean Labatut, both of whom became actively interested in Neo-Thomism from the late 1940s. More specifically, a closer look at their reliance on the work of Jacques Maritain, the preeminent promotor of Neo-Thomism, sheds light on the transmission and circulation of old and new concepts within twentieth-century architectural theory. By revealing how Maritain’s ideas helped to codify the latter and thus exposed the premodern ideas at the heart of modern architecture, I argue that modernist aesthetics should be re-evaluated with regards to its definition of “the new” and its emphasis on the breakdown or mutation of premodern frames of reference.     

Community and Identity: The Making of Modern Gibraltar since 1704

Building on recent historiography that has questioned traditional assumptions regarding the altruism of post-war Canadian foreign policy, this article examines Canada's response to the emergence of the Afro-Asian bloc at the United Nations in 1960. Canadian diplomats initially greeted the emergence of the Third World, hoped to influence delegations from these newly emergent states and had notions of working as a bridge between the west and the rest. However, the increasing radicalism of African and Asian resolutions targeting Canada's traditional allies made this task increasingly difficult. Ultimately, Ottawa was forced to face the fact that it was a western country.