上海的舊城改造導致大片舊式弄堂街區的消失，與此同時，弄堂建築也被昇華為上海文化象徵，並成為懷舊時尚的素材。但被淡忘的是弄堂也是中國革命的起源地之一，是中共的誕生地。今天一些弄堂房子還是革命紀念館。本文通過分析中共「一大」會址紀念館和時尚消費熱點新天地同在的一個街區來探討舊弄堂建築的新演繹，並揭示如此的演繹在營造政治意識形態紀念碑和刺激高端消費中有著類似的功用。本文展示毛時代的革命與當今地方政府的城市改造和擴張計畫之間的連續性：後者實際上可以被看作是一個建築和城市空間的新革命。儘管如此，城市空間的生產和消費已經取代了政治革命而成為社會變革的新動力。

Shanghai’s current urban regeneration has incurred the rapid disappearance of low-rise ‘longtang’ neighborhoods—the city’s most widespread residential space from the late nineteenth century to the end of the last century, while the architecture of ‘longtang’ is rediscovered as the city’s cultural heritage from the colonial period. This nostalgia for the colonial past does not recall the fact that ‘longtang’ spaces were also where the ideas of Chinese revolution were first promulgated and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was founded. This article examines the history of the site of the CCP First Congress and the latest commercial development Xintiandi next to that site, highlighting the reinventions of ‘longtang’ architecture in the makings of the revolution monument and the trendy leisure outlet. While these reinventions of historical spaces show a continuity between the Maoist revolution and the contemporary (local government’s) urban rebuilding and expansion program, the production and consumption of urban space, the article argues, has replaced revolution as the main driving force of social change.