Reinventing the Chinese City

✍ Richard Hu 📂 Library 📅 2023 🏛 Columbia University Press 🌐 English

<span>Since the late 1970s, China has undergone perhaps the most sweeping process of urbanization ever witnessed. This is typically understood as a story of growth, encompassing rapid development and economic dynamism alongside environmental degradation and social dislocation. However, over the past

The Chinese City

📁 The Chinese City

✍ Weiping Wu; Piper Gaubatz 📂 Library 📅 2012 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

China's cities are home to 10 percent of the world's population today. They display unprecedented dynamism under the country's surging economic power. Their remarkable transformation builds on immense traditions, having lived through feudal dynasties, semicolonialism, and socialist commands. Studyin

The wheel: inventions & reinventions

📁 The wheel: inventions & reinventions

✍ Bulliet, Richard W 📂 Library 📅 2016;2015 🏛 Columbia University Press 🌐 English

In this book, Richard W. Bulliet focuses on three major phases in the evolution of the wheel and their relationship to the needs and ambitions of human society. He begins in 4000 B.C.E. with the first wheels affixed to axles. He then follows with the innovation of wheels turning independently on the

Synergicity: Reinventing the Postindustr

📁 Synergicity: Reinventing the Postindustrial City

✍ Paul Hardin Kapp; Paul J. Armstrong 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 University of Illinois Press 🌐 English

SynergiCity: Reinventing the Postindustrial City proposes a new and invigorating vision of urbanism, architectural design, and urban revitalization in twenty-first-century America. Culling transformative ideas from the realms of historic preservation, sustainability, ecological urbanism, and the inn

Understanding the Chinese City

📁 Understanding the Chinese City

✍ Li Shiqiao 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 SAGE 🌐 English

"Li Shiqiao reveals continuities between ancient Chinese city formations and current urban organizations where others see only rupture and chaos. No other work on the staggering urban explosion in China so deftly displays the complexities of these current formulations. Bringing an impressive ar

The Wheel: Inventions And Reinventions

📁 The Wheel: Inventions And Reinventions

✍ Richard W. Bulliet 📂 Library 📅 2016 🏛 Columbia University Press 🌐 English

In this book, Richard W. Bulliet focuses on three major phases in the evolution of the wheel and their relationship to the needs and ambitions of human society. He begins in 4000 B.C.E. with the first wheels affixed to axles. He then follows with the innovation of wheels turning independently on the

Reinventing the Chinese City

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