Abstract This book unravels the decision and policy making, planning, design, and development processes that have enabled the Shenzhen’s rapid growth, and associated problems and paradoxes. It also reveals the politics and power that have propelled this experimental city to spearhead Deng Xiaoping’s ‘reform and opening-up’ agenda, which has made the city and remade the …
Abstract The Routledge Handbook of Planning History offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary overview of planning history since its emergence in the late 19th century, investigating the history of the discipline, its core writings, key people, institutions, vehicles, education, and practice. Combining theoretical, methodological, historical, comparative, and global approaches to planning history, The Routledge Handbook of Planning History explores the state …
Abstract This Open Access book, building on research initiated by scholars from the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development (CHGD) and ICOMOS Netherlands, presents multidisciplinary research that connects water to heritage. Through twenty-one chapters it explores landscapes, cities, engineering structures and buildings from around the world. It describes how people have actively shaped the …
Abstract The space of the North Sea is almost fully planned and it has been loaded with the task of increasing economic production from both new and traditional maritime sectors. At the same time, it has been emptied of cultural significance. Through different projects from academia, art, literature and practice, from analysis to design, The …
Abstract The traditional Chinese city is undergoing an identity crisis. An appropriate approach, both in design and in legislation, is urgently needed to deal with this problem. Furthermore, existing methods of urban form study in China are either descriptive or loosely structured, whereas a comprehensive methodology is necessary to ‘read’ Chinese urban forms in a …
Abstract This paper investigates the formal instruments of design governance and the urban design decision-making environment in Chinese cities. It identifies Shenzhen, Shanghai and Nanjing as three cities pioneering in design-led planning in China and critically evaluates their approaches using a series of ‘best practice’ principles for design review and development management. The findings are …
Abstract This monograph focuses on the concept of ‘liveable streets’ in China. It has firstly developed an analytical framework with a hierarchy of liveability qualities, factors, and specific indicators for Shanghai. The framework was initially informed by the literature and then refined through questionnaires and interviews with urban development professionals in China (n = 107). Interviews with …
Abstract La città contemporanea, costruita nel corso degli ultimi decenni, appare oggi come una somma di edifici-eccezione, apparentemente autoreferenziali e incapaci di entrare in dialogo tra loro. Negli ultimi anni alcune rilevanti figure del panorama architettonico hanno proposto una visione alternativa dello spazio urbano, fondata su alcuni caratteri tipici della città europea: il ruolo centrale …
Abstract Pur adottando l’edilizia aperta tipica delle esperienze più moderne, gli architetti delle borgate di seconda generazione propongono spazi urbani ben definiti dai fronti edilizi e allo stesso tempo aperti e concatenati in sequenza. Se da una parte infatti la regolarità geometrica delle planimetrie fa riferimento alle esperienze internazionali moderne, dall’altra è chiara la volontà …
Abstract Nate in territori di frontiera tra la città e la campagna, le borgate realizzate dall’Istituto Case Popolari dalla seconda metà degli anni Trenta hanno conservato nel processo di espansione urbana una loro distinta identità e sono oggi tra i luoghi più affascinanti e vitali della periferia romana. Seppur afflitte da profondi problemi, nonché prigioniere …