罗岗,华东师范大学中文系教授,著有《面具背后》、《想象城市的方式》等在今天的上海,与鳞次栉比的高楼大厦相比,曹杨新村显得有些没落。最早的房子建于1950年代,最晚的也是1990年,大套房子很少,多数是四五十平方米的小房间。唯一能让人眼前一亮的就是路边的梧桐树。不过,作为上海第一个专门为工人建造的大型居住社区,其历史堪称辉煌。在1950年代,能住曹杨新村可说是一种荣耀,因为当年上海的劳模都住在曹杨一村。在那个工人当家作主的年代,劳模是一个光荣的身份称号。 Luo Gang, Professor of Chinese Department of East China Normal University, author of “The Mask Behind” and “The Way to Imagine the City” In today’s Shanghai, Caoyang New Village appears to be somewhat decadent compared to the row upon row of tall buildings. The earliest house was built in the 1950s, the latest is 1990, a large set of houses is very small, mostly four or five square meters of small rooms. The only shining is the roadside plane trees. However, as Shanghai’s first large-scale residential community built specifically for workers, its history is brilliant. In the 1950s, it was an honor to be able to live in Caoyang New Village because all the model workers in Shanghai lived in Caoyang village. In the era when the worker was the mastermind, model worker was a glorious title.