Remaking Chinese urban form
Subtitle: modernity, scarcity, and space, 1949-2005
By: Duanfang Lu.
Series: Planning, history, and environment series; Planning, history, and the environment series.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Sociology, Urban -- China; City planning -- China -- History; Communism and architecture -- China -- History; Danwei -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Socialist space, postcolonial time; title: The neighbourhood unit in China : the travel of a global urban form; title: Work unit modernism; title: The socialist production of space : planning, urban contradictions, and the politics of consumption in Beijing, 1949-1965; title: Modernity as utopia : planning the people's commune, 1958-1960; title: The latency of tradition : from the city wall to the unit wall; title: The new frontier : urban space and everyday practice in the reform era; title: Epilogue.