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Globalization and the Chinese city.
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ISBN: 0415351995 Year: 2006 Publisher: London Routledge

Urban development in modern China.
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ISBN: 086531120X Year: 1982 Publisher: Boulder Westview


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Reconstruire la Chine : trente ans d'urbanisme 1949-1979.
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ISBN: 2862821438 9782862821436 Year: 1981 Publisher: Paris Moniteur

Rehabilitating the old city of Beijing : a project in the Ju'er Hutong neighbourhood
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ISBN: 1283131366 9786613131362 0774852305 9780774852302 0774807261 9780774807265 077480727X 9780774807272 9781283131360 6613131369 Year: 1999 Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press,

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Seventy years of revolution and turmoil have had a severe impact on the miraculous ancient urban form of Beijing, but economic growth since the early 1990s has threatened to deal the coup de grace. In Rehabilitating the Old City of Beijing, Wu Liangyong presents an impassioned plea to turn the tide of demolition and offers a new direction for the planning and development of China's capital. Wu, a student and colleague of China's first architectural historian, Liang Sicheng, is a champion of the human-scaled development and a voice for conservation. But above all, he is an architect, and it is through his own projects, built and unbuilt, that he advocates a more humane vision of the city. Wu's project for the renewal of the Ju'er Hutong (Chrysanthemum Lane) neighbourhood in the heart of Beijing's Old City takes pride of place in this book. A thoughtful analysis of those aspects of the ancient capital's features, which the project aims to respect and conserve, is followed by a detailed account of the design and development process of the project itself. Architectural drawings and photographs of the completed project, and data on the neighbourhood's resident population present the state of the art in Chinese residential design and planning -- a field that is deeply challenged by reforms sweeping through the entire economy and society of the country. Urban historians, conservationists, planners, and architectural scholars and practitioners interested in Chinese cities, or in any of the world's great capitals, will want to read this book.

Remaking Chinese urban form : modernity, scarcity and space, 1949 - 2005.
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ISBN: 0415354501 Year: 2006 Publisher: London Routledge

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This book charts the evolution of the contemporary Chinese urban built environment. Following the socialist revolution of 1949, China's architects and planners attempted to remodel urban settlements according to modern neighborhood design and planning principles. However, the gigantic social upheaval left these attempts unsuccessful. The result was a divided landscape: a modern functional urban world of work units (danwei) - the largely self-contained entities which integrated workplace, housing, and social services - strictly separated from an underdeveloped rural world. Against this background and drawing on urban studies, environmental design history, urban studies, and critical theory, questions of Chinese modernity, nation building, spatial injustice, and urban-rural conflict are explored.


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Building globalization : transnational architecture production in urban China
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ISBN: 128309763X 9786613097637 0226709825 9780226709826 9781283097635 9780226709802 0226709809 9780226709819 0226709817 6613097632 Year: 2011 Publisher: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press,

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From the years 2004 to 2008, Beijing and Shanghai witnessed the construction of an extraordinary number of new buildings, many of which were designed by architectural firms overseas. Combining ethnographic fieldwork, historical research, and network analysis, Building Globalization closely scrutinizes the growing phenomenon of transnational architecture and its profound effect on the development of urban space. Roaming from construction sites in Shanghai to architects' offices in Paris, Xuefei Ren interviews hundreds of architects, developers, politicians, residents, and activists to explore this issue. She finds that in the rapidly transforming cities of modern China, iconic designs from prestigious international architects help private developers to distinguish their projects, government officials to advance their careers, and the Chinese state to announce the arrival of modern China on the world stage. China leads the way in the globalization of architecture, a process whose ramifications can be felt from Beijing to Dubai to Basel. Connecting the dots between real estate speculation, megaproject construction, residential displacement, historical preservation, housing rights, and urban activism, Building Globalization reveals the contradictions and consequences of this new, global urban frontier.

Great leap forward : Harvard Design School Project on the City
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ISBN: 3822860484 9783822860489 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard Design School

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The Chinese dream : a society under construction.
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ISBN: 9789064506529 9064506523 Year: 2008 Publisher: Rotterdam 010

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Urbanization --- Cities and towns --- City planning --- Architecture and society --- Architecture --- Urbanisation --- Villes --- Planification urbaine --- Architecture et société --- Growth. --- History --- Croissance --- Histoire --- China --- 711.4 --- 316.334.56 --- 711.4 <51> --- 911.375 --- 915.1 --- 711.4(B) --- 71(510) --- Stedenbouw ; landschappen ; maatschappelijke groei ; China ; 2007-2012 --- Steden ; ontwerpen ; China --- Woningbouw ; appartementen ; woningblokken ; hoogbouw --- Stedenbouw ; architectuur ; densiteit --- Collectieve woningbouw --- Woonblokken --- Stedenbouw ; mondialisering ; globalisering ; internationalisering --- Steden ; technologie en maatschappij --- Sociale geografie ; China --- Stedenbouw --- Stadssociologie--(algemeen) --- Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw--China --- Steden. Studie van stedelijke vestiging. Geografie van steden. Stadsgeografie --- Geography of China --- Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening ; ontwerpen van de steden --- Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening ; China --- 711.4 <51> Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw--China --- 316.334.56 Stadssociologie--(algemeen) --- Architecture et société --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- Growth --- Design and construction --- Social aspects --- Human factors --- Architecture, Primitive


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Shanghai new towns : searching for community and identity in a sprawling metropolis.
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ISBN: 9789064507359 Year: 2010 Publisher: Rotterdam 010

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Each year, more than 15 million Chinese leave the rural areas of China and move to the cities. This figure exceeds 300,000 in the case of Shanghai. By the time 2010 cedes to 2011, the majority of China's population will be living in the cities. "Shanghai new towns. Searching for community and identity in a sprawling metropolis" documents and analyses the meteoric rate of urbanization of the countryside round Shanghai, most particularly the part played there by new towns and new villages. This decentralized planning model takes its cue from classic Western examples. A few pilot new towns have been developed on paper withhelp from Western designers and then adapted to suit Chinese standards. This book shows how the plans have been put into practice. Photos, essays by Chinese and Western critics and descriptions of projects illustrate what daily life looks like and how these new cities function within the Yangtze River Delta Metropolitan Area as a whole. It dwells at length on the international exchange of knowledge and the differences in method.

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Cities and towns --- City planning --- Economic development --- Globalization --- Urbanization --- Growth. --- Social aspects --- 71.03 --- 711.16 --- 711.417.4 --- 711.432 --- 711.4 --- 711.6 --- China --- Shanghai --- 711.4(C)(510) --- Stedenbouw ; vormgeving ; analyse ; China ; Changhai --- Steden ; China ; 21ste eeuw --- 711.4 <51> --- 911.375 <5> --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Urban development --- Urban systems --- Social history --- Sociology, Rural --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban policy --- Rural-urban migration --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban renewal --- 711.417.4 Planologie: nieuwe steden; new-towns --- Planologie: nieuwe steden; new-towns --- 711.4 <51> Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw--China --- Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw--China --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Human settlements --- Growth --- Stedenbouw (geschiedenis) --- Stadsuitbreiding --- New towns --- Nieuwe steden --- Grootsteden --- Metropolen --- Stedenbouw --- Stadsplanning --- Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening ; vormgeving en analyse van de stad ; China --- Urban settlements (their study and geography). Towns. Cities--Azië --- Government policy --- Management

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