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Changing Chinese Cities: The Potentials of Field Urbanism
Renee Y. Chow
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Description for Changing Chinese Cities: The Potentials of Field Urbanism
Hardcover. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: AM; JFSG; KCU; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 187. Weight in Grams: 825.
Until the middle of the twentieth century, Chinese urban life revolved around courtyards. Whether for housing or retail, administration or religion, everyday activities took place in a field of pavilions and walls that shaped collective ways of living. Changing Chinese Cities explores the reciprocal relations between compounds and how they inform a distinct and legible urbanism.
Following thirty years of economic and political containment, cities are now showcases whose every component—street, park, or building —is designed to express distinctiveness. This propensity for the singular is erasing the relational fields that once distinguished each city. In China’s first tier cities, ... Read more
Until the middle of the twentieth century, Chinese urban life revolved around courtyards. Whether for housing or retail, administration or religion, everyday activities took place in a field of pavilions and walls that shaped collective ways of living. Changing Chinese Cities explores the reciprocal relations between compounds and how they inform a distinct and legible urbanism.
Following thirty years of economic and political containment, cities are now showcases whose every component—street, park, or building —is designed to express distinctiveness. This propensity for the singular is erasing the relational fields that once distinguished each city. In China’s first tier cities, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
NUS Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
Singapore, Singapore
ISBN
9789971698331
SKU
V9789971698331
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About Renee Y. Chow
Renee Y. Chow is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at University of California Berkeley, USA as well as a founding principal of Studio URBIS.
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