新村作为一种集居形式,在20世纪20年代由日本传入中国后,因带有强烈的社会改良和乌托邦色彩,在内部的空间设计上强调平等、公正、清洁和卫生等空间理念,并在30年代阑入英国田园城市理念。1950年之后,新村中的乌托邦思想和空间设计理念被用来展现工人当家作主和社会主义优越性,意识形态主宰了工人新村的发展。通过分析上海20世纪30至80年代新村建设与各种社会思潮之间的关系,作者试图展现近代上海城市空间形成的过程及其驱动因素。
Originated in Japan of the 1920s, new village, as a way of collective living, was characterized by social transformation and utopian ideal. The design of interior space focuses on the principles of equality, justice, hygiene and healthy. In turn, it informed the production of space in shanghai, in the meantime, the idea of Garden City ideal was incorporated in the 1930s. This concept was adopted by the Chinese Communist Party. The new village became the symbol of working class who took over the control of socialist society in PRC, and socialist ideology became the key word of the new village. Through mapping out the relations between new village development and ideological trends in Shanghai, the authors try to analyze the dynamics and consequences of the new villages in the production of urban space in Shanghai from 1930s to 1980s.