Hangzhou
Subtitle: grids from canal to maxi-block
By: Joan Busquets ; with Dingliang Yang
Contributors: Yang, Dingliang, author, translator
Publisher: Applied Research And Desi; ORO Editions
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Hong Kong]
Language: eng; chi
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9781939621542
Subjects: Chinese Architecture; City planning; Urban renewal
Table of contents: title: Hangzhou research. The Hangzhou grid; title: Hangzhou urbanization: advantages and challenges; title: Key projects; title: The changing grid; title: Grids pattern; title: Analytic methods; title: City layers; title: Research design proposals. Porous city: strategies for the historic core; title: Inhabiting the edge: water systems as spines for urban development; title: Intermediate scales: finding new human-scale fabrics for Hangzhou; title: Infrastructure and development: high-speed rail in the countryside; title: Urban functions: aligning mixed-use developments to urban infrastructure; title: Reading the grid in a social and economic register: rural to urban transitions; title: Rural grids: strategies to reinvigorate the rural village.