Donia Zhang

Courtyard Housing and Cultural Sustainability

Theory, Practice, and Product

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using an innovative architectural and social science approach, this book examines the political, economic, social, and spatial factors that affect cultural sustainability. Supported by a multiplicity of data including: field surveys, interviews with residents, architects, and planners, time diaries, drawings, photos, planning documents, observation notes, and real estate brochures, the book proposes new courtyard garden house design strategies that promote healthy communities and human care for one another, a concept that is universally applicable. It provides a holistic view, encompassing eastern and western tangible and intangible cultures in the theorization of 'cultural sustainability'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781138256774
• ISBN-10: 1138256773
• Artikelnr.: 50451432

Autorenporträt

Donia Zhang is a graduate of Oxford Brookes University (BArch, MA, PhD) in the UK and Brock University (MEd) in Canada. She has worked in the architectural industry for 7 years, taught art history and AutoCAD, among other subjects, in Ontario. She has published two other books: Courtyard Houses of Beijing: Past, Present, and Future (2009/2010/2011), and Schoolyard Gardening as Multinaturalism: Theory, Practice, and Product (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Foreword, Ronald G. Knapp; Prologue; Introduction: lost link
between Heaven and Earth; Part I Cultural Sustainability: Four pillars of
sustainable development: courtyard housing and cultural sustainability;
Four key themes in Chinese philosophy on city planning and courtyard house
design. Part II Classical Courtyard Houses of China: Form and environmental
quality, space and construction quality of classical courtyard houses;
Matters of social cohesion, time and cultural activities in classical
courtyard houses. Part III New Courtyard Housing: Historic preservation and
modernization of classical courtyard houses; Harmony with Heaven: form and
environmental quality of the new courtyard housing; Harmony with Earth:
space and construction quality of the new courtyard housing; Harmony with
humans: matters of social cohesion in the new courtyard housing; Harmony
with self: time and cultural activities in the new courtyard housing. Part
IV Culturally Sustainable Architecture: Four cornerstones of culturally
sustainable architecture. Part V Future New Courtyard Garden Houses:
Conclusion: in search of paradise; Epilogue; Appendix; References; Index.