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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: lost city
    sub title: Beijing
  name:
    name part: Phoenix Satellite Television Limited
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Internet videos.
  genre: Documentary television programs.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (72 min.).
  abstract: This enlightening film looks at the issues of urban gentrification and preservation in Beijing today. For the past decade many of the city's old neighborhoods, the ancient, densely populated enclaves of narrow, winding streets and crumbling courtyard houses have been steadily demolished due to industrialization and modernization. The houses called "hutongs," were built around a central courtyard which provided structure for each family's development. Many were labelled unsafe by the government and have now been replaced by office towers and high-rise apartments. Much of the devastation has occurred in the Quianmen neighborhood, once the domain of the Qing dynasty (1644 -1911). For centuries it was filled with hutongs, opera halls and boarding houses filled with scholars. Quianmen is only one piece of the continuing citywide slum clearance and construction boom that have accelerated to prepare for the Olympic Games in 2008. Affordable housing has become such a serious problem that many people from old Beijing have been forced to the city's outskirts because they can no longer afford to live in their old neighborhoods. This has led to enormous traffic jams as more Chinese workers own cars and commute from the outskirts to the center. In 2005 the government came up with a new city plan which they hope will provide a way to accomodate both the city's heritage and its new development. This plan may provide for the city's growth as a world power center but has it come too late to save the city's architectural heritage?
  target audience: For College; Adult audiences.
  target audience: general
  note: produced by Phoenix Satellite Television.
  note: Previously published as DVD.
  note: Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).
  note: Slide.
  note: English.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-cc-pe
  subject:
    topic: City planning
    geographic: China
    geographic: Beijing
  subject:
    topic: Gentrification
    geographic: China
    geographic: Beijing
  subject:
    topic: Historic preservation
    geographic: China
    geographic: Beijing
  subject:
    geographic: China
    geographic: Beijing
  classification: HT178.C62 T445 2007
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)747797395
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: VaAlASP
    record creation date: 080405
    record change date: 20260324201629.4
    record identifier: in00003746606