The city after Chinese new towns : spaces and imaginaries from contemporary urban China / Michele Bonino, Francesca Governa, Maria Paola Repellino, Angelo Sampieri (eds.).

Basel : Birkhäuser, [2019]
©2019

251 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

By 2020, some 400 Chinese new towns will have been built, representing an unprecedented urban growth. While some of these massive developments are still empty today, others have been rather successful. The substantial effort on the part of the Chinese government is to absorb up to 250 million people, chiefly migrants from the rural parts of the country. Unlike in Europe and North America, where new towns grew in accordance to the local industries, these new Chinese cities are mostly built to the point of near completion before introducing people. The interdisciplinary publication, written by architects, planners and geographers, explores the new urbanistic phenomenon of the "Chinese New Town". Especially commissioned photographs and maps illustrate these new settlements in Tonfzhou, Zhaoqing, and Zheng-dong.

9783035617658 (hardbound)
3035617651
9783035616323
(PDF)
9783035616354

Cities and towns China Growth.
Cities and towns China Forecasting.
Community development, Urban China.
City planning China.
New towns China.
Villes Chine Croissance.
Villes Chine Prévision.
Développement communautaire urbain Chine.
Villes nouvelles Chine.
Community development, Urban.
New towns.
Architecture, Modern.
Cities and towns Growth.
City planning.
China.

Bonino, Michele, 1974- editor.
Governa, Francesca, editor.
Repellino, Maria Paola, editor.
Sampieri, Angelo, editor.

Spaces and imaginaries from contemporary urban China

Location: Library main 305028
Call No.: BIB 250764
Notes: Project: Manifesto 2020
Status: Available