To get to the heart of a city, you need a good pair of shoes. Charles Baudelaire used the term `flâneur' to describe someone who walks through the city to experience it. And nothing beats being shown around by those who have been walking the streets themselves for a while. Let the Shanghai Flaneurs take you on a walk-and-talk experience! As a community service SHANGHAI FLANEUR offers public walks for individuals, a novel format to explore urban space, involving short lectures, walks to key locations and discussions with our experts.
To join a public walk or register for the newsletter, kindly send a message to Yolanda at publicwalks(at)shanghai-flaneur.com or call her @ +86 1381 892 2040 for short notice inquires. Prices for public walks: 300 RMB per person; 250 RMB for accompanying guests and 180 RMB for students. Below kindly find our public walk calendar.
Should you prefer privacy or have a special occasion to celebrate, we also offer all topics as private walks to individuals and families. To arrange a private walk please contact us @ info(at)shanghai-flaneur.com
19.05.2013
Gentrification with Chinese characteristics
Chinese development in the recent two decades astounded the world with its speed and magnitude. This is most visible in the rising skylines, booming highways, glitzy new malls in Shanghai that is presented through the western media. But it is not onl[more]
24.05.2013
Shanghai’s Music History & Jazz Scene - Past and Present - A night time walk
Old Shanghai was the uncontested Jazz capital of Asia, where musicians from the world over tested their musical mettle to the delight of enthusiastic audiences. In the colorful cabarets and sepia-lit dance halls of Old Shanghai, Jazz music set a back[more]
26.05.2013
Feel the City – A Coaching Walk to gain new perspectives
Being one of the most bustling urban areas in the world, Shanghai’s energy is stimulating, dynamic and inspiring, exhausting, tiring, sometimes confusing. How do we relate to the different energies of the city, how do they affect us, and how can w[more]
30.05.2013
SPECIAL: Shanghais Straßenküchen – Menschen, Ihre Geschichten und Rezepte
Auf der Suche nach verbliebenen Gassen mit lebendiger Straßenküchenkultur wanderten Autorin Julia Dautel und Photographin Nicole Keller durch Shanghai. Wo immer sie Stände sahen, aus denen Dämpfe aufstiegen oder den Geruch von Gebratenem wahrnahme[more]
01.06.2013
SPECIAL: Shanghais Straßenküchen – Menschen, Ihre Geschichten und Rezepte
Auf der Suche nach verbliebenen Gassen mit lebendiger Straßenküchenkultur wanderten Autorin Julia Dautel und Photographin Nicole Keller durch Shanghai. Wo immer sie Stände sahen, aus denen Dämpfe aufstiegen oder den Geruch von Gebratenem wahrnahmen, [more]
02.06.2013
Traces and Places: A Walk from the Wild West to the Land of the Rising Sun
Shanghai Flaneur is delighted to present a special walk with Peter Hibbard this month. Peter Hibbard and his family will be leaving Shanghai in July. Share with him his journey of discovery starting there with visits to his favourite places arou[more]
08.06.2013
In German! Lilongs: Dörflicher Mikrokosmos mitten im Hochhausdschungel
Shanghai ist ein faszinierendes Konglomerat verschiedenster Architekturstile, die sich über die letzten 200 Jahre angesammelt haben und aufregende Kontraste zwischen alternd und hyper-modern, bescheiden und glamourös, intim kleinen und gigantisch wei[more]
09.06.2013
From Past Writers’ Lilong Residences to today’s Creative Hubs – Investigating heritage transformations in Hongkou
Shanghai as many Asian megalopolis is engaged in the world evolution. Architectures, urban fabrics and landscape heritage are the witness and factor of all these mutations. Nowadays Lilong maintain visible and invisible traces that characterize Shang[more]
16.06.2013
Shanghai Symbolism – Decoding the Architecture of the City
Both at the beginning and at the end of the twentieth century architects working in Shanghai have fused Western and Chinese design elements and cultural values in their projects. From magnolias to circles and squares, to the height of buildings, this[more]
30.06.2013
"Boulevard Moscow" - Scandalous Russians in Old Shanghai
In the gilded age of colonial Shanghai – from the 1920s to the 1940s – the French Quarter was a Russian enclave. Eight out of ten westerners strolling on Avenue Joffre spoke Russian, and the street was nicknamed “Boulevard Moscow.” An extraordinary c[more]