The urban code of China
By: Dieter Hassenpflug ; [translation from German into English, Mark Kammerbauer]
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Basel
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9783034605724
Subjects: Urbanization; Architecture; City planning; Cities and towns; Chinese National characteristics; History
Other titles: Cheng shi
Work titles: Urbane Code Chinas
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-175).
Table of contents: title: How to read a city?; title: Transformations of empty urban space; title: Swinging lines and dancing dots; title: Closed urban space; title: Open urban space; title: Urban fictions; title: The compact city; title: The Chinese city as a semiotic system; title: Summary.