Titre et auteur:

50 species-towns / Charles Waldheim with Office for Urbanization, Charles Gaillard, Mariano Gomez-Luque, Mercedes Peralta, Seok Min Yeo, Boya Zhang.

Édition:

English edition.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University School of Design, 2021

Description:

xii, 726 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 30 cm

Notes:
"50 species towns imagines a new approach to Chinese rural urbanization premised on the propagation of fifty "heritage crops", plant species that have a long and culturally significant history of cultivation in China."--Introduction, page 1.
"50 species-towns proposes a new paradigm for agrarian new-town development in China based on the reconciliation of former oppositions: city versus country, new versus old. The project aims to support the goal of enhancing quality of life and public health for populations remaining in, or returning to, the countryside."--Introduction, page 18.
"This publication presents a research project carried out at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design Office for Urbanization between 2018 and 2020."--"Acknowledgments," page xi.
Title page, Table of contents, Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgments, and Introduction are on pages 29 x 19 cm; remaining pages are 29 x 22 cm.
Each section of groups of species is followed by a group of photographs by the named photographers.
Photographs from People's daily are from the Chinese newspaper Ren min ri bao.
"Copyright ©2021 the President and Fellows of Harvard College"--Title page verso.
"Designed by 2 x 4, New York, N.Y."--Title page verso.
"Printed and bound by Booxs, Almkerk, the Netherlands"--Title page verso.
"Composed in Adobe Garamond Pro, Monument Grotesk, Noto Sans SC, and Prestige Elite Std. Printed on Munken Lynx, Fedgrigoni Symbol Freelife Gloss, and Clairefontaine trophee #4100"--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Species-town life: urban imaginaries in the post-pandemic era / Kongjian Yu -- Agricultural modernization and collective memory / Charles Waldheim -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Apple pear to ginseng -- [photographic portfolio by] Xiaoxiao Xu -- Nanguo pear to ma walnut -- [photographic portfolio by] Gilles Sabrié -- Wild jujube to scallion -- [photographic portfolio by] Tuul and Bruno Morandi -- Kushui rose to angelica -- [photographic portfolio by] Zhang Kechun -- Highland barley to ginkgo -- [photographic portfolio by] Ian Teh -- Soybean to ginger -- [photographic portfolio from the] People's daily -- Mulberry to goldthread -- [photographic portfolio by] Raphael Olivier -- Bayberry to mandarin orange -- [photographic portfolio by] Chris Steele-Perkins -- Lotus to Walnut -- [photographic portfolio by] Li Junhui -- Pomelo to shanlan rice -- Coda.
In English; chapter titles followed by Chinese characters; front cover: plant names in English, back cover: plant names in Chinese.
Chinese edition: 50 pin cheng (OCoLC)1351474326

Résumé:

"In response to these failures [of American modernization of agriculture], many experiments with smaller, slower, and more local agricultural production are currently underway. These alternative models of ecologically informed farming tend to focus on smaller-scale local producers working with interplanted crop mixtures and the rotation of livestock across the land. While these remain limited in scope compared to the dominant mode of agricultural production in the US, they hold profound potential in helping Chinese agriculture avoid the failures of the twentieth century. Toward that end, this publication presents an alternative model for agricultural modernization and new-town planning in China. This model is derived from a close reading of Chinese agricultural history and village life in support of the vital economic, environmental, and societal reforms currently underway. The project is informed by the extraordinary wealth of culinary diversity and heritage crops found across China, The most significant of these, the fifty most cherished and most vulnerable to loss, shape our proposal. Building upon the 'one town, one crop' model of economic integration, our proposal imagines fifty small-scale agricultural new-towns across China. Each of these towns is conceived in relation to a single, specific heritage crop and associated agroecological system deemed to be of great culinary and cultural value. The lived experience, landscape identity, and economic viability of each new-town are defined by the specific cultural meaning of these heritage crops. These crops also shape the spatial structure of the town's urban order and that of the surrounding agricultural landscape. This model of the "species-town" is deeply indebted to the innovative work of Dr. Kongjian Yu, in particular his Shenhyang University campus in Liaoning Province."--Pages ix-x.

ISBN:

9781734048032 (hardback)
1734048034 (hardback)

Sujet:

Rural development China 21st century.
City planning China 21st century.
Urbanization China 21st century.
Agricultural development projects China 21st century.
Rural development projects China 21st century.
Agrobiodiversity conservation China 21st century.
Agriculture and state China 21st century.
Local foods China 21st century.
Développement rural Chine 21e siècle.
Urbanisation Chine 21e siècle.
Projets de développement agricole Chine 21e siècle.
Projets de développement rural Chine 21e siècle.
Biodiversité agricole Conservation Chine 21e siècle.
Politique agricole Chine 21e siècle.
Civilization
Agricultural development projects
Agriculture and state
Agrobiodiversity conservation
City planning
Local foods
Rural development
Rural development projects
Urbanization
China Civilization 2002-
Chine Civilisation 2002-
China

Vedettes secondaires:

Waldheim, Charles, project director.
Gaillard, Charles, contributor.
Gómez Luque, Mariano, contributor.
Peralta, Mercedes, contributor.
Yeo, Seok Min, contributor.
Zhang, Boya, contributor.
Xu, Xiaoxiao, 1984- photographer.
Sabrié, Gilles, photographer.
Morandi, Tuul, photographer.
Morandi, Bruno, photographer.
Zhang, Kechun, photographer.
Teh, Ian, photographer.
Olivier, Raphael, photographer.
Steele-Perkins, Chris, photographer.
Li, Junhui, 1976- photographer.
Harvard University. Graduate School of Design, issuing body.
Harvard University. Graduate School of Design. Office for Urbanization.
2x4 (Design studio), book designer.
Bloco Gráfico, book designer.
Ren min ri bao.

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