Abstract
Shanghai is a city that since the beginning of its contemporary urban history has been developed based on mass housing construction. Since its first models, which gave its identity, called lilong, through the Communist era to contemporary blocks included in the so-called gated communities. This paper analyzes the four existing typologies of mass housing in the city, describing from its historical, cultural, social and architectural context, subsequently to expose two theses, the first that aims to show the validity of each of the existing models in urban amalgam is the current Shanghai and another that tries to show that the typologies of housing that are being built today are direct inheritance of Modernism.
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