China's Urban Communities: Concepts, Contexts, and Well-Being

By Peter G Rowe and Peter G. Rowe

Life in urban neighborhoods in China

Cities in China are extremely dynamic and
experience high pressure to grow, transform and adapt. But in what
directions, on what basis and to which goals? The authors and their team
have researched the intensive transformation processes of about
twenty-five neighborhood communities that were created in Beijing,
Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Suzhou in the last 30 years, ranging from
inner-city to peripheral areas, starting from planning and leading up to
user satisfaction studies. This in-depth overview on neighborhood
typology and development in China follows the book Emergent Architectural Territories in East Asian Cities
by Peter Rowe, who is among the world's best scholars on urban
transformation in East Asia, together with his colleagues Ann Forsyth
and Har Ye Kan.

Urban quarters in big cities of ChinaDevelopment of social communitiesUrbanism for quality of life

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3035608334
• ISBN13: 9783035608335
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.8" x 11.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary