Shanghai new towns
Subtitle: searching for community and identity in a sprawling metropolis
By: edited by Harry den Hartog = Shanghai xin cheng : zhui xun man yan du shi li de she qu he shen fen / zhu bian, Hali Deng Hatuoge
Publisher: 010 Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Rotterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9789064507359
Subjects: Urbanization; Globalization; Growth; City planning; Cities and towns; Economic development
Other titles: Shanghai xin cheng; Searching for community and identity in a sprawling metropolis
Description: Each year, more than 15 million Chinese leave the rural areas of China and move to the cities. This figure exceeds 300,000 in the case of Shanghai. By the time 2010 cedes to 2011, the majority of China's population will be living in the cities. "Shanghai new towns. Searching for community and identity in a sprawling metropolis" documents and analyses the meteoric rate of urbanization of the countryside round Shanghai, most particularly the part played there by new towns and new villages. This decentralized planning model takes its cue from classic Western examples. A few pilot new towns have been developed on paper withhelp from Western designers and then adapted to suit Chinese standards. This book shows how the plans have been put into practice. Photos, essays by Chinese and Western critics and descriptions of projects illustrate what daily life looks like and how these new cities function within the Yangtze River Delta Metropolitan Area as a whole. It dwells at length on the international exchange of knowledge and the differences in method.
Notes: Parallel text in English and Chinese.