The City after Chinese New Towns : : Spaces and Imaginaries from Contemporary Urban China /

The City after Chinese New Towns : : Spaces and Imaginaries from Contemporary Urban China / / ed. by Francesca Governa, Maria Paola Repellino, Michele Bonino, Angelo Sampieri.

By 2020, some 400 Chinese New Towns will have been built, representing an unprecedented urban growth. While some of these massive developments are still empty today, others have been rather successful. The substantial effort on the part of the Chinese government is to absorb up to 250 million people...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2019
MitwirkendeR:
Armando, Alessandro,
Berta, Mauro,
Bideau, Florence Graezer,
Bonino, Michele,
Carota, Francesco,
De Pieri, Filippo,
Federighi, Valeria,
Fiandanese, Filippo,
Frassoldati, Francesca,
Gaofeng, Xu,
Governa, Francesca,
Jian, Liu,
Pagani, Anna,
Paola Repellino, Maria,
Pellecchia, Samuele,
Ramondetti, Leonardo,
Rinaldi, Bianca Maria,
Safina, Astrid,
Sampieri, Angelo,
Vero, Davide,
HerausgeberIn:
Bonino, Michele,
Governa, Francesca,
Repellino, Maria Paola,
Sampieri, Angelo,
Place / Publishing House:Basel : : Birkhäuser, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • I. Introduction
  • Questioning New Towns
  • What Are We Talking about when We Talk about Cities?
  • Between the Exceptional and the Ordinary
  • What Does a New Town Do?
  • About This Book
  • Walking Through
  • II. Chinese New Towns in Policies, Narratives and Traditions
  • A Policy Discourse on New Town Development in Contemporary China
  • When Ends Don’t Meet. Historical Interpretations of Twenty-First-Century New Towns
  • New Urbanisation and “Go West” Policies
  • Shaping Urbanity. Politics and Narratives
  • Architecture and New Towns
  • The New Towns of Zhaoqing, Zhengdong and Tongzhou
  • III. Spaces
  • Exhibition Halls
  • High-Rise Apartments
  • Undergrounds
  • Urban Parks
  • Mapping New Towns
  • IV. Openings
  • The City Is Available. Chinese New Towns as a Backup Space
  • Scaling Up and Scaling Out. New Towns and “the Standpoint of an Absence”
  • References
  • About the Authors
  • Index of Places
  • Illustration Credits

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