騎楼と飄楼による街路整備の実施過程：1930年代初頭，中国福建省の厦門における都市改造 [Redesigning Xiamen (Amoy): City Improvement by Street Planning with Covered-sidewalks in South China in the early 1930s]

Abstract

This paper explains how streets and their facing buildings in the southern Chinese city of Amoy (Xiamen) were redesigned during a city improvement plan in the early 1930s. By using a map from the “Simingxilu and Shengpinglu Street Plan” and other planning documents, I show how the new street plan was superimposed atop the city’s old urban district. In addition, I have also conducted onsite surveys of existing buildings, verified if the buildings were built to plan or not, investigated the process of land and building expropriation, and discuss the building of the city’s characteristic covered-sidewalks (qilou or piaolou).