China's Urban Communities

Peter G. Rowe; Ann Forsyth; Har Ye Kan

Published by Birkhäuser 2016

China's Urban Communities

Concepts, Contexts, and Well-Being

Peter G. Rowe , Ann Forsyth and Har Ye Kan

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035607062

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Life in urban neighborhoods in China

Cities in China are extremely dynamic and experience high pressure to grow, transform and adapt. But in what directions, on what basis and to which goals? The authors and their team have researched the intensive transformation processes of about twenty-five neighborhood communities that were created in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Suzhou in the last 30 years, ranging from inner-city to peripheral areas, starting from planning and leading up to user satisfaction studies. This in-depth overview on neighborhood typology and development in China follows the book Emergent Architectural Territories in East Asian Cities by Peter Rowe, who is among the world’s best scholars on urban transformation in East Asia, together with his colleagues Ann Forsyth and Har Ye Kan.

Urban quarters in big cities of China
Development of social communities
Urbanism for quality of life

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Ann Forsyth, Prof. of Urban Planning; Peter G. Rowe, Prof. of Architecture and Urban Design; Har Ye Kan, Research Assoc.; Harvard GSD

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Language: English
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Audience: Urban planners, architects, researchers in Far Eastern and Chinese cultures and societies
Pages
- Main content: 200
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- Illustrations: 100
- Coloured Illustrations: 200

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Published: June 6, 2016
ISBN: 9783035607062

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Published: June 6, 2016
ISBN: 9783035608335