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Villages in the City
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Description for Villages in the City
Paperback. This book argues for the value of urban villages as places. To reveal their qualities, a series of drawings and photographs uncovers the immerse concentration of social life in their dense structures and provides a peek into residents homes and daily lives. Editor(s): Al, Stefan. Num Pages: 216 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSG; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 431.
Countless Chinese villages have been engulfed by modern cities. They no longer consist of picturesque farms and feng shui groves, but of high-rise buildings so close to each other that they create dark claustrophobic alleys - jammed with dripping air-conditioners, hanging clothes, caged balconies and bundles of buzzing electric wires, and crowned with a small strip of daylight, known as “thin line sky.” At times, buildings stand so close to another they are dubbed “kissing buildings” or “handshake houses” - you can literally reach out from one building and shake hands with your neighbor.
Although it is easy to ... Read more
Countless Chinese villages have been engulfed by modern cities. They no longer consist of picturesque farms and feng shui groves, but of high-rise buildings so close to each other that they create dark claustrophobic alleys - jammed with dripping air-conditioners, hanging clothes, caged balconies and bundles of buzzing electric wires, and crowned with a small strip of daylight, known as “thin line sky.” At times, buildings stand so close to another they are dubbed “kissing buildings” or “handshake houses” - you can literally reach out from one building and shake hands with your neighbor.
Although it is easy to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824847562
SKU
V9780824847562
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-3
About Unknown
Stefan Al is a Dutch architect, urban designer, and an associate professor of urban design at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. In an international career to date, he has worked as a practicing architect on renowned projects suchas the 2,000-foot high Canton Tower in Guangzhou, the preservation of world heritage in Latin America at theWorld Heritage Center of UNESCO, and ... Read more
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