ShanTang Street

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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

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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