1st Edition
Aspects of Urbanization in China Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou
By Gregory Bracken
Copyright 2012
208 Pages
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Routledge
China’s rise is one of the transformative events of our time. Aspects of Urbanization in China: Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou examines some of the aspects of China’s massive wave of urbanization – the largest the world has ever seen. The various papers in the book, written by academics from different disciplines, represent ongoing research and exploration and give a useful snapshot in a rapidly... Read more
INTRODUCTION, 1 Aspects of Urbanization in China: Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, GLOBAL AMBITIONS, 2 Towards an Understanding of Architectural Iconicity in Global Perspective, 3 Shanghai and the 2010 Expo Staging the City, 4 Guangzhou’s Special Path to Global City Status, CULTURAL EXPRESSION, 5 Repairing the Rural-Urban Continuum Cinema as Witness, 6 Revisiting Hong Kong Fruit Chan’s ‘Little Cheung, 7 Sensual, but No Clue of Politics Shanghai’s Longtang Houses, ARCHITECTURAL EXPRESSION, 8 Urbanization and Housing Socio-Spatial Conflicts over Urban Space in Contemporary Shanghai, 9 It Makes a Village Hong Kong’s Podium Shopping Malls as Global Villages, Contributors, Bibliography, Index.
Biography
Gregory Bracken is Assistant Professor of Spatial Planning and Strategy at TU Delft and one of the co-founders of Footprint, the journal dedicated to architecture theory. From 2009 to 2015 he was a Research Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) Leiden where he co-founded the Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA). His publications include The Shanghai Alleyway House: A Vanishing Urban Vernacular (2013), Asian Cities: Colonial to Global (2015), Contemporary Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West (2020), and Ancient and Modern Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West (2019).
