Product Description: While the Chinese planning system is vitally important to the rapid development which has been taking place over the past three decades, this is the first text to provide a comprehensive examination and critical evaluation of this system...read more

Product Description: In this pioneering study of contemporary Chinese urban form, Duanfang Lu provides an analysis of how Chinese society constructed itself through the making and remaking of its built environment. She shows that as China’s quest for modernity created a perpetual scarcity as both a social reality and a national imagination, the realization of planning ideals was postponed...read more

Product Description: Examines achitecture and urban design as a joint entity, using socio-cultural studies to develop a complete picture of the forces that shape Chinese design. This study incorporates information from other disciplines - history, archeology, anthropology - to elaborate the discussions and conclusions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Describes and examines the structures of the capital cities and major urban centers from the Sui to the Northern Song period. It also provides an in-depth account of the process of transformation from the curfew controlled city of the Tang period to the open city of the Song. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This study of cities on China's inland frontiers from ancient times to the present is the first work to explore the nature of urbanism on Chinese frontiers.