Every city has built environments that are largely regarded as eyesores, for aesthetic, social, or moral reasons. Urban nightlife streets are examples of such ‘grimy heritage’. Not only shabby and disorderly, they harbour forms of commercial sex, drinking cultures, and ephemeral nightlife cultures that many city residents and government officials consider undesirable. Sometimes their built forms are regarded as the enemy of genuine heritage architecture, since they obscure more solid, carefully designed structures around them. However, in many cities, organic nightlife streets—developing in such spaces precisely because they were derelict or poorly regulated—serve important social functions as spaces of creativity and community formation. This paper examines the ways that such ‘grimy heritage’ has developed in Shanghai and Tokyo, using examples from ethnographic research and historical sources, and addressing the question of the contribution of the ‘grimy heritage’ to authentic, urban social life.

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肮脏的遗产：上海和东京的有机酒吧街

每个城市都有出于审美，社会或道德原因而被视作令人讨厌的环境。城市夜生活的街道就是这种“肮脏的遗产”的例子。它们不仅破旧和无序，还具有许多城市居民和政府官员认为不受欢迎的商业色情形式，饮酒文化和短暂的夜生活文化。有时，它们的建造形式会掩盖周围更坚固，精心设计的结构，因此被视为真正遗产建筑的敌人。但是，在许多城市中，有机夜生活街道（正是由于废弃或监管不善而在这样的空间中发展）具有重要的社会功能，是创造力和社区形成的空间。本文探讨了这种“肮脏的遗产”在上海和东京的发展方式，