China : a historical geography of the ubran /: a historical geography of the ubran. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Yannan Ding, Maurizio Marinelli, Xiaohong Zhang.
• Editors: Ding, Yannan; Marinelli, Maurizio; Zhang, Xiaohong
• Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction;Yannan Ding.PART I. Nation and City.Chapter2. Shanghai Parks in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century – Architectural and Cultural Exchanges between the East and the West;Hsiu-Ling Kuo. Chapter 3.A City of Workers, a City for Workers? Remaking Beijing Urban Space in the Early PRC;Fabio Lanza.Chapter4. Changchun across 1949: Rebuilding a Colonial Capital City under Socialism in the Early 1950s;Yishi Liu.PART II. Mediating History and Modernity.Chapter5. Tunxi: Urban Sectoral Agglomeration in a Regional Center of Tea Trade;Yi Zou, Xi Lin.Chapter6. What's in a Name: The 'New Village' in Shanghai, 1930-1980;Duan Zheng, Xiaohong Zhang.Chapter 7. The View of Comparison about Politics of Street Names between Taipei and Shanghai;Wenchuan Huang.PART III. Contemporary City Building.Chapter8. Disneyfication or Self-referentiality: Recent Conservation Efforts and Modern Planning History in Datong;Shulan Fu, Jean Hillier.Chapter9. The Politics of Aesthetics in Tianjin between Past and Present;Maurizio Marinelli.Chapter10. Living in the 'Past': The Effects of a Growing Preservation Discourse in Contemporary Urban China;Philipp Demgenski.​.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 307.760951; Urbanization -- China; Cities and towns -- China -- Growth
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319640426
• Related ISBNs: 9783319640419
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