Shanghai between 19th and 20th centuries. Open Door Policy and the Birth of Industrial Heritage // Shanghai tra il XIX e il XX secolo. La porta aperta e la costituzione del patrimonio industriale

19至20世纪的上海：工业遗产的开端与建立。 上海作为最具有国际化大都市特色的城市之一，对其工业遗产的探索意味着打开了一段城市建设过程的历史。上海的城市体系、建筑、科技反映了多元文化以及精英人才在此的交融。在19世纪中叶，上海作为国外移民定居点的几十年后，在这里开始了商业领域里重要的工业制造活动。19世纪末工业的迅速崛起为上海的黄金时代奠定了基础。在上世纪二、三十年代，尽管当时全中国深陷动荡和危机，但上海反而加速了其经济和城市的发展。也正是因为这一特殊时期，上海工业展现了其独特面貌和典型特征，成为了当代中国建筑和工业遗产的重要组成部分。长期以来，上海市管理部门一直在制定一项文化政策，希望将将工业遗址作为集体遗产的中心。基于这一愿景，建立新的工具或方法允许对遗产的叙述和记忆价值的重新利用是必要的，既一种更为普适和包容的设计。

Exploring Shanghai's industrial heritage constitution means embarking on a journey through the history of one of the most exceptional cosmopolitan cities ever established. The urban system, architecture, technology reflect the meeting of many cultures and enterprising people. Some decade after the location of the foreign settlements, in the middle of 19th, the city added to the commercial vocation an important manufacturing activity. The rapid industrial rise of the late 19th laid the foundation for the golden age of Shanghai. During the twenties and thirties, despite the crisis in all of China, the city accelerates its economic and urban growth. It assumes its face and its definitive character and an important part of the current architectural and industrial heritage is due to this period. The Shanghai administration has for some time been activating a cultural policy that places industrial sites at the center of the vision of collective heritage. On this vision it is important and necessary to build the tools to allow new uses that take advantage of the value of narration and memory, with an informed and widespread design.