The Habitable City in China
Urban History in the Twentieth Century
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Beschreibung
This book offers a new perspective on Chinese urban history by exploring cities as habitable spaces. China, the world’s most populous nation, is now its newest urban society, and the pace of this unprecedented historical transformation has increased in recent decades. The contributors to this book conceptualise cities as first providing the necessities of life, and then becoming places in which the quality of life can be improved. They focus on how cities have been made secure during times of instability, how their inhabitants have consumed everything from the simplest of foods to the most expensive luxuries, and how they have been planned as ideal spaces. Drawing examples from across the country, this book offers comparisons between different cities, highlights continuities across time and space—and in doing so may provide solutions to some of the problems that continue to affect Chinese cities today.
Examines the urban history of China, and catalysts of China's transformation into the world's newest urban society during times of instability Focuses on cities as providing life's neccesities, and then becoming places in which quality of life can be inmproved Explores and compares the design of Chinese cities, aiming to be ideal spaces Presents solutions to problems affecting Chinese cities today
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Toby Lincoln
Themen in »The Habitable City in China«
China Urban history Habitable city Transformation Necessities of life Quality of life Instability Ideal space Chinese cities Time and space 20th century cities history history of literature urban history