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Village in the City – Asian Variations of Urbanisms of Inclusion
Kelly Shannon
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Description for Village in the City – Asian Variations of Urbanisms of Inclusion
Paperback. A comprehensive overview on an urbanisation process particular to China. Num Pages: 124 pages, 100 Colour, 40 B&W. BIC Classification: 1F; AMVD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 224 x 13. Weight in Grams: 668.
'Village in the City' investigates an equally specific and spectacular urbanisation process that many regions in China have been undergoing during the past two decades. The massive scale and the unprecedented speed of this process imply an incredible multiplicity of 'villages in the city'. As such there are as many counter figures as there are "regular" and "normalised" urban environments that engulf these villages. Village in the City opens a window on recent research on the dynamic transformation processes villages in China are undergoing to become (parts of) cities, and contextualises this specific contemporary Chinese phenomenon in a comparative perspective ... Read more
'Village in the City' investigates an equally specific and spectacular urbanisation process that many regions in China have been undergoing during the past two decades. The massive scale and the unprecedented speed of this process imply an incredible multiplicity of 'villages in the city'. As such there are as many counter figures as there are "regular" and "normalised" urban environments that engulf these villages. Village in the City opens a window on recent research on the dynamic transformation processes villages in China are undergoing to become (parts of) cities, and contextualises this specific contemporary Chinese phenomenon in a comparative perspective ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Park Books Switzerland
Number of pages
124
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
667g
Number of Pages
124
Place of Publication
Zurich, Switzerland
ISBN
9783906027272
SKU
V9783906027272
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99-15
About Kelly Shannon
Kelly Shannon is a professor at the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape, Oslo School of Architecture and Design (Norway). Bruno De Meulder is professor for urbanism at the University of Leuven (Belgium). Yanliu Lin works as a postdoc researcher at the department of geography at University of Utrecht (Netherlands). Their Research Group Urbanism and Architecture at the University of Leuven ... Read more
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