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Hangzhou : grids from canal to maxi-block /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Busquets, Joan (Author), Yang, Dingliang (Author, Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Hong Kong] : Applied Research and Design Publishing, [2016]
Subjects:
Hangzhou (China)
Architecture, Chinese.
City planning > China > Hangzhou Shi.
Urban renewal > China > Hangzhou Shi.
Table of Contents:
  • Hangzhou research. The Hangzhou grid
  • Hangzhou urbanization: advantages and challenges
  • Key projects
  • The changing grid
  • Grids pattern
  • Analytic methods
  • City layers
  • Research design proposals. Porous city: strategies for the historic core
  • Inhabiting the edge: water systems as spines for urban development
  • Intermediate scales: finding new human-scale fabrics for Hangzhou
  • Infrastructure and development: high-speed rail in the countryside
  • Urban functions: aligning mixed-use developments to urban infrastructure
  • Reading the grid in a social and economic register: rural to urban transitions
  • Rural grids: strategies to reinvigorate the rural village.