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Joshua Bolchover - Designing the Rural: A Global Countryside in Flux - 9781118951057 - V9781118951057
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Designing the Rural: A Global Countryside in Flux

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Description for Designing the Rural: A Global Countryside in Flux Paperback. Series: Architectural Design. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: AM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 170. .
The rural is not what it used to be. No longer simply a site for agricultural production for the city, the relationship between the rural and urban has become much more complex. Established categories such as rural /urban and village/city no longer hold true. Rural and urban conditions have become increasingly blurred, so how can we identify and distinguish their specific characteristics? Where is the rural, and what role does it play in an urbanised world? In developing countries the countryside is a volatile and contradictory landscape: legally designated rural areas look like dense slums; factories intersect fields and farmers ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Architectural Design
Condition
New
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781118951057
SKU
V9781118951057
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Ref
99-1

About Joshua Bolchover
Joshua Bolchover is an urban researcher, academic and architectural designer. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on understanding urban transformation in China. He exhibited his work, Rural Urban Ecology at the Venice Biennale 2010. He is the author with John Lin of Rural Urban Framework: Transforming ... Read more

Reviews for Designing the Rural: A Global Countryside in Flux
Yet again the AD team have produced a fascinating, throught-provoking, deep delve into the trends that are changing our environment and our ways of working. (theNBS.com, August 2016)

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