Traditional Chinese Villages
Traditional Chinese Villages

Author: Linping Xue

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-06-01

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 9813361549

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This book uses the concept of the region to introduce traditional Chinese villages in ten typical areas. Most of the villages have been included in the World Cultural Heritage List or the Tentative List and reflect the diversity of rural and traditional life. Richly illustrated with pictures of architectural decorations, dwellings, day-to-day country life and aerial views of settlements, it not only enhances readers’ knowledge of China’s traditional architectural culture but also provides inspiration for architectural creation. It is a valuable resource for graduate students, lecturers and researchers in the field of traditional villages, heritage conservation and Chinese architectural culture.

Village Governance in North China
Village Governance in North China

Author: Huaiyin Li

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2005-03-09

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0804767556

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This book is about village governance in China during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing on government archives from Huailu county, Hebei province, it explores local practices and official systems of social control, land taxation, and "self government" at the village level. Its analysis of peasant behaviors bridges the gap between the rational choice and moral economy models by taking into account both material and symbolic dimensions of power and interest in the peasant community. The author's interpretation of village/state relations before 1900 transcends the state and society dichotomy and accentuates the interplay between formal and informal institutions and practices. His account of "state making" after 1900 underscores the continuity of endogenous arrangements in the course of institutional formalization and the interpenetration between official discourse and popular notions in the new process of political legitimization.

Villages in the City
Villages in the City

Author: Stefan Al

Publisher:

Published: 2014-09-30

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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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.

Marginalization in Urban China
Marginalization in Urban China

Author: F. Wu

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-10-28

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 0230299121

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This book covers social inequalities in Chinese cities and provides comparative perspectives on inequality and social polarization, neoliberalization and the poor, the change of property rights, rural to urban migration and migrants' enclaves, deprivation and residential segregation, state social security and reemployment training programs.

China's Old Dwellings
China's Old Dwellings

Author: Ronald G. Knapp

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9780824822149

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China's Old Dwellings is the most comprehensive critical examination of China's folk architectural forms in any language. It and its companion volume, China's Living Houses: Folk Beliefs, Symbols, and Household Ornamentation, together form a landmark study of the environmental, historical, and social factors that influence housing forms for nearly a quarter of the world's population. Both books draw on the author's thirty years of field-work and extensive travel in China as well as published and unpublished material in many languages.

Ghost Cities of China
Ghost Cities of China

Author: Wade Shepard

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-04-09

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1783602201

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Featuring everything from sports stadiums to shopping malls, hundreds of new cities in China stand empty, with hundreds more set to be built by 2030. Between now and then, the country's urban population will leap to over one billion, as the central government kicks its urbanization initiative into overdrive. In the process, traditional social structures are being torn apart, and a rootless, semi-displaced, consumption orientated culture rapidly taking their place. Ghost Cities of China is an enthralling dialogue driven, on-location search for an understanding of China's new cities and the reasons why many currently stand empty.

Beautiful Villages
Beautiful Villages

Author: Xiaochun Zhang

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781864707984

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Beautiful Villages gives a comprehensive review of rural construction practices in contemporary China through a number of projects, such as the intervention of artists and art exhibitions, industrialisation efforts, and the creation of new social landscapes. In order to explore the social and historical significance of recent architectural work in rural areas, the book presents around 40 projects, most of which are the works of some of the most influential architects in China. The perspective of Beautiful Villages on rural development provides valuable insight for both government officials and architects alike. AUTHOR: Dr. Zhang Xiaochun is an associate professor at Tongji University College of Architecture and Urban Planning and the director of the editorial board of Time Architecture. She is mainly engaged in urban architecture, the protection and renewal of historic buildings, and the renovation of rural architecture. She also pays close attention to interdisciplinary research, such as cultural anthropology. SELLING POINT: * A comprehensive review of rural architecture in contemporary China 400 colour images

The Magic Square
The Magic Square

Author: Alfred Schinz

Publisher: Edition Axel Menges

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 3930698021

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Presents the development of Chinese urbanism. Equipped with source material and maps, this book applies metrological methods. Including about 300 drawings, it gives an overall view of the urban life and culture that existed in the traditional society of late Imperial China.

Urban Planning and Development in China and Other East Asian Countries
Urban Planning and Development in China and Other East Asian Countries

Author: Guanzeng Zhang

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-10-29

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9811308780

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This book examines urban development and its role in planning in China and other Asian cities. Starting with a substantial narrative on the history, development philosophy, and urban form of ancient Asian cities, it then identifies the characteristics of urban society and different phases of development history. It then discusses urbanization patterns in China with a focus on spatial layout of the city clusters in the Yangtze River Delta since the 20th Century. Lastly, it explores institutional design and the legal system of urban planning in China and other Asian cities. As a textbook for the “Model Course in English” for international students listed by the Ministry of Education in China, it helps international researchers and students to understand urban development and planning in Asian cities.