Cross-border Roads And Modern Shanghai Urban Change (1862-1925)

In the modern development process of Shanghai, the foreign settlement 's existence and development and its expanding in different periods exerted a most profound influence on the shaping of Shanghai's special pattern as a modern city and the evolution of it's city society and culture.As an important form of the settlements'expanding, building roads cross the border had a particular significance for Shanghai's city expanding. Road construction is the basic of city planning.It had specific historical perspective and its process involving is really broad. Construction path is the scope for urban municipal administration construction.This caused problems beyond city planning and had a most complicated influence on the change of Shanghai's city pattern and even society.The article breakthroughs from building roads cross the border and goals for city society's vicissitude in Shanghai from 1862 to 1925.It also analyzes social management situation of the area of building roads cross the border and elaborates the influence which produces to the city society's vicissitude .The article divides into three parts: introduction, body and conclusion.The introduction mainly tells the cause, the aim and the significance of the article, the development of related research, and so on.The body is made up of there chapters. The first chapter describes the origin and historical process of building roads cross the border under the foreign settlement expansion background through the related reference material and the predecessor research results.And it shows the outsider path of foreign settlement in different times. The second chapter expounds how the city's expansion is occured and changed in the process of building roads cross the border. The third chapter analysizes the city society's influence which takes from building roads cross the border through its change of land price and population and special municipal administration management. The conclusion summarizes the full article.It points out the dual influences of city's development from building roads cross the border and how does the city society's vicissitude manifest in its development and change.