Aspects of Urbanization in China
Titel
Aspects of Urbanization in China
Subtitel
Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou
Prijs
€ 67,95 excl. BTW
ISBN
9789089643988
Uitvoering
Paperback
Aantal pagina's
212
Taal
Engels
Publicatiedatum
Afmetingen
15.6 x 23.4 cm
Discipline
Aziëstudies
Inhoudsopgave
Toon inhoudsopgaveVerberg inhoudsopgave
Aspects of Urbanization in China - 2 Table of Contents - 6 List of Tables and Illustrations - 8 Acknowledgements - 10 INTRODUCTION - 12 1 Aspects of Urbanization in China:Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou - 14 GLOBAL AMBITIONS - 26 2 Towards an Understanding of Architectural Iconicity in Global Perspective - 28 3 Shanghai and the 2010 Expo Staging the City - 48 4 Guangzhou’s Special Path to Global City Status - 60 CULTURAL EXPRESSION - 78 5 Repairing the Rural-Urban Continuum Cinema as Witness - 80 6 Revisiting Hong Kong Fruit Chan’s ‘Little Cheung - 102 7 Sensual, but No Clue of Politics Shanghai’s Longtang Houses - 118 ARCHITECTURAL EXPRESSION - 138 8 Urbanization and Housing Socio-Spatial Conflicts over Urban Space in Contemporary Shanghai - 140 9 It Makes a Village Hong Kong’s Podium Shopping Malls as Global Villages - 166 Contributors - 184 Bibliography - 188 Index - 200

Recensies en Artikelen

"This book offers impressive arguments on the subject of Chinese cities and their evolution. Contributions deal mostly with architectural aspects of Chinese urbanization. However, architecture is not an end in itself, for it is used by the authors as a tool to study the transformation of Chinese cities from post-colonial to global megalopolises. […] This book should be read by everyone interested in Chinese cities, and not only by architects, as it demonstrates the consequences of architectural choices on many aspects of Chinese urban society. [Sebastien Goulard on http://urbachina.hypotheses.org/1589 (November 19, 2012)|"Among burgeoning studies on urban globalization, Aspects of Urbanization in China stands out as genuinely interdisciplinary. These lavishly detailed local accounts of three major Chinese cities by experts in architectural and cultural studies produce a refreshingly intimate knowledge of global metropolitan typologies.” — Robin Visser is Associate Professor of Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill

Gregory Bracken

Aspects of Urbanization in China

Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou

China's opkomst als wereldmacht is een van de ingrijpendste gebeurtenissen van deze tijd. Honderden miljoenen mensen zijn de armoede ontvlucht dankzij de snelle industrialisatie van het land. De wonderbaarlijke economische groei van China heeft zijn nadelen, iets wat vaak het meest pijnlijk duidelijk wordt in de steden.
Deze studie is geschreven door wetenschappers uit verschillende disciplines, waaronder architectuur, stedenbouw, sociale wetenschappen, aardrijkskunde en antrolpologie. Een dee van de auteurs behandelt de mondiale ambities van de steden, terwijl andere hun culturele en architecturale uitingen onderzoeken.
Auteur

Gregory Bracken

Gregory Bracken is Assistant Professor of Spatial Planning and Strategy at TU Delft and one of the co-founders of Footprint, the journal dedicated to architecture theory. From 2009 to 2015 he was a Research Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) Leiden where he co-founded the Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA). His publications include The Shanghai Alleyway House: A Vanishing Urban Vernacular (2013), Asian Cities: Colonial to Global (2015), Contemporary Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West (2020), and Ancient and Modern Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West (2019).