The open-up of Shanghai and southern Jiangsu in 1840 formed a prosperous situation for Nantong city. The architectures and the city itself have evolved in two ways: the splendid development of ancient architectures and the old town had been continued, and Western decoration began to appear in houses in Nantong, which could be called the beginning of the architecture modernization. ln 1895, Zhang Jian, the businessman with strong political power, achieved a monopoly commercial development rights in Nantong. After that, the city had formed a system of one city and three towns, and the integration of western style and Chinese traditional architecture became popular. Since 1903 when the economic development in Nantong had reached the climax, the three-town pattern had been perfected, and the modern architecture developed throughout. There had been a lot of residential and public buildings in modern style, which greatly enriched the material content of the first modern city.%文章以南通近代的城市和建筑为研究对象，阐述1840年以后，具有官方背景的商人张謇在南通兴办工业拉开南通近代化的序幕，南通城市和建筑在工业化过程中得到蓬勃发展，一城三镇的城市布局和显性中体西用的建筑，形成了南通建筑近代化的初步发展；1922年以后主城区的南部中心的兴起、西式装饰中式神韵的中国特色的建筑模式形成，显示南通近代化的深入与成熟。揭示近代城市与建筑的引进、涵化和成熟的过程。
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