Remaking Chinese Urban Form

Modernity, Scarcity and Space, 1949-2005
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-415-66569-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 368 g

Reihe: Planning, History and Environment Series

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. Drawing on archival documents, professional journals and her own fieldwork, she explores hitherto overlooked issues including the history of China’s residential planning paradigms and the development of the work unit as an urban form.

Lu shows how China’s quest for modernity created a perpetual scarcity as both a social reality and a national imagination. Although planners attempted to apply modern planning techniques to the city, the realization of planning ideals was postponed. The conflicting relationship between scarcity and the socialist system created specific spatial strategies. The work unit – the socialist enterprise or institute – gradually developed from workplace to social institution which integrated work, housing and social services. The Chinese city achieved a unique morphology made up in large part of self-contained work units.

Today, when the Chinese city has revealed its many faces, Remaking Chinese Urban Form presents a refreshing panorama of the nation’s mixed experiences with socialist and Third World modernity which is both timely and provocative.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lu, Duanfang (University of Sydney, Australia)

Lu, Duanfang

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Socialist Space, Postcolonial Time Part 1: China Modern 2. The Neighbourhood Unit in China: The Travel of a Global Urban Form 3. Work Unit Modernism Part 2: Urban Dreams 4. The Socialist Production of Space: Planning, Urban Contradictions, and the Politics of Consumption in Beijing, 1949-1965 5. Modernity as Utopia: Planning the People's Commune, 1958-1960 Part 3: Shifting Boundaries 6. The Latency of Tradition: From the City Wall to the Unit Wall 7. The New Frontier: Urban Space and Everyday Practice in the Reform Era 8. Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Duanfang Lu is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Sydney. She is the editor of Third World Modernism: Architecture, Development and Identity, also published by Routledge.