Peter Cookson Smith: Architect, planner and urban designer, is a director of URBIS, the firm he founded in Hong Kong in 1977 - one of the first specialist planning, environmental, landscape and urban design consultancies in Asia. He is an Honorary Professor at the Department of Architecture, University of Hong Kong.
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P6 FOREWORD P9 PREFACE P13 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION P25 CHAPTER 2 CONFUCIANISM, URBANISATION AND EMERGING MARITIME CONNECTIONS P43 CHAPTER 3 OPIUM, AGGRESSION AND UNEQUAL TREATIES P69 CHAPTER 4 TREATY PORT GROWTH, EXPLOITATION AND POLITICAL CHANGE P105 CHAPTER 5 POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION IN THE TREATY PORTS P133 CHAPTER 6 NATIONALISATION AND THE NEW MODERNISM P163 CHAPTER 7 POST-CONCESSION PORT CITIES AND THE SOCIALIST PLANNED ECONOMY P191 CHAPTER 8 MODERNISATIONS: A RESURGENCE OF THE PORT CITIES Treaty ports P230 SHANGHAI P272 AMOY P286 CANTON P314 DALNY P324 FOOCHOW P334 HANKOW P344 HARBIN P356 NANKING P366 NINGPO P376 SWATOW P382 TIENTSIN P398 TSINGTAO
