ShanTang Street
Name of Building
ShanTang Street
Town or City, Country where the building was originally established
Northwestern Gusu District, Suzhou
Date the building was designed and/or first built
Building starts 825 AD
Name of Architect, Builder, or Primary Patron Responsible
Poet and Governor Bai Juyi (directed the development)
Culturally Specific Time Period
Tang Dynasty
Geo-Location
31.315486709846116, 120.60383258997386
Materials
Stone
Wood
Size and/or Scale of Building
3,830 m (12,570 ft)
Architectural Type
Public
Formal Style
Traditional Chinese style of the Yangtze River Delta
Image source
Image 1: The_Tonggui_bridge_at_Shentang_Street,_Suzhou.tif
Image 2: Shantang_Street9
Image 3: Shantang_Street1
Image 4: tabe_a_1781647_f0001_b
Image 5: Shantang_Street_Canal
Creative Commons or other copyright information
Image 1: Creative Commons
Image 2: Creative Commons
Image 3: Creative Commons
Image 4: Zhang, Zhehan, Kai Fang, Xinpeng Wang, Lin Chen, Wenda Zhang, and Nobuaki Furuya. 2021. “Characteristics, Correlations of Traditional Street Space Elements and Tourist Density Following Spontaneous Renovation: A Case Study on Suzhou’s Shantang Street.” Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering 20 (1): 29–43. doi:10.1080/13467581.2020.1781647.
Image 5: Creative Commons
Student First and Last Name
Sultana Rahim
Bibliographic references for the item
https://www.chinadiscovery.com/jiangsu/suzhou/shantang-street.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shantang_Street
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Citation
Poet and Governor Bai Juyi (directed the development), “ShanTang Street,” World Architecture, accessed June 28, 2026, https://www.worldarchitecture.artinterp2.org/items/show/138.
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