Fei Chen, Kevin Thwaites

Chinese Urban Design

The Typomorphological Approach. by Fei Chen and Kevin Thwaites

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Produktbeschreibung

With the rapid development taking place in Chinese cities, there is growing conflict between this new building and the existing urban heritage. Chinese Urban Design offers an analytic and conceptual framework for both urban investigation and consequent design. Firstly summarising traditional urban design principles and how Chinese cities have transformed over time, it then introduces and offers a theoretic ground and scientific methodology for understanding the evolution of urban forms, initially developed in Western countries. It demonstrates the theoretic model via real cases - from the city of Nanjing - and establishes a direct link between understanding of urban forms and design development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781409433880
• ISBN-10: 1409433889
• Artikelnr.: 41250063

Autorenporträt

Fei Chen, Kevin Thwaites

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Part I History and Theory: Traditional Chinese urban form and continuity
Transformation of Chinese urban form in the modern era
Typology morphology and typomorphology. Part II Understanding the Design Context: A theoretic model: Chinese urban form as seven elements
Typomorphological analysis of urban form: the case of Nanjing. Part III Urban Design Practice: Urban design in the West and its operation in China
From typomorphological analysis to design practice : the case of Nanjing
Typomorphology and Chinese urban design
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.