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    2019 Vol. 1
    J East-Asian Urban His. 2019, 1: 155-185

    Reading from transition of Beijing block planning and collective housing in the 1950s

    Shao, Shuai

    Received   2019/09/30        Accpted   2019/12/08        Published Online   2019/12/31

    DOI : https://doi.org/10.22769/JEUH.2019.1.1.155

    Abstract

    This paper showed that the policy power of the Chinese government in the 1950s was directly linked to the development of housing construction. The author of this study conducted on-site surveys of several collective houses built from 1949 to 1960 that are still standing to photograph and investigate the status of these residential buildings.

    Key Words: residential building, socialist, Beijing, 1950s