The elemental metropolis : the past and future of the extended urbanity in the Yangtze River Delta, China / Qinyi Zhang.
"This book provides a multi-scale reading of the spatial “elements” in which the extensive urbanity in Yangtze River Delta is constructed, and from there an imagination of a new paradigm of urbanization.The urbanization in Yangtze River Delta today is in need of a new interpretation and paradig...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer,
[2023]
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| Series: | Urban book series
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| Online Access: | Springer eBooks |
| Summary: | "This book provides a multi-scale reading of the spatial “elements” in which the extensive urbanity in Yangtze River Delta is constructed, and from there an imagination of a new paradigm of urbanization.The urbanization in Yangtze River Delta today is in need of a new interpretation and paradigm. The delta is a territory with city cores but it also has vast dispersed urbanization where the agricultural and non-agricultural activities and spaces are mixed and interlinked, adesakota(Mc Gee, 1991). This book attempts to answer a basic question: what is thedesakotain the Yangtze River Delta made of?The research Horizontal Metropolisled by Prof. Paola Viganò at EPFL, Switzerland focuses on the form of the contemporary city – the fragmentary spatial condition and dispersed urbanity all over the world. The study on Yangtze River delta is part of its research frame."--Publisher's website. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 239 pages) : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISSN: | 2365-7588 |