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The Urban Code of China

By Dieter Hassenpflug; Mark Kammerbauer

Book information

Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Year
2010
ISBN
9783034612067, 9783034605724
LCC
NA9265 -- .H3713 2010eb
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11631208 bytes)
Series
Birkhäuser Generalstandingorder
Pages
176\176
Time added
2023-08-04 02:06:36
Chinese.City planning -- China. ; Cities and towns -- Chin

Description

When reading the Chinese city, which this book sets out to do, it is not the well-known cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Xi an that are in the focus of attention, but rather the essentially Chinese of the Chinese city, those characteristics or attributes that are more or less shared by all Chinese cities. The spotlight is on their spatial grammar, their syntax, in short: their code. Only by deciphering their common traits a view to the underlying structure of Chinese cities is opened, and we can begin to reasonably evaluate and classify the diversity of impressions. Deciphering the code of the Chinese city also enables the author to read new Chinese towns designed by Western architects. Thus, readers are provided with valuable insight on China s booming urbanization and urban development.

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