Remaking Chinese urban form : modernity, scarcity, and space, 1949-2005 /
"In this pioneering study of contemporary Chinese urban form, Duanfang Lu provides an analysis of how Chinese society constructed itself through the making and remaking of its built environment. She shows that as China's quest for modernity created a perpetual scarcity as both a social rea...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
©2006
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| Series: | Planning, history, and the environment series
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Table of Contents:
- Socialist space, postcolonial time
- Travelling urban form : the neighbourhood unit in China
- Work unit modernism
- The socialist production of space : planning, urban contradictions, and the politics of consumption in Beijing, 1949-1965
- Modernity as utopia : planning the people's commune, 1958-1960
- The latency of tradition : on the vicissitudes of walls
- The new frontier : urban space and everyday practice in the reform era
- Epilogue