Beijing record : a physical and political history of planning modern Beijing / Wang Jun.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wang, Jun.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--China--Beijing.

City planning.

Beijing (China)--History--20th century.

Beijing (China).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (537 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 2003, the Chinese Xinhua News Agency journalist Wang Jun published the bestseller ""Beijing Record"", the result of ten years of research on the urban transformation of Beijing in the last fifty years. Home to more than 15 million people, this ancient capital city - not surprisingly - has a controversial, complicated history of planning and politics, development and demolition. The publication raises a number of unsettling questions: Why has a valuable historical architecture such as city ramparts, gateways, old temples, memorial archways and the urban fabric of hutongs (traditional alleywa

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgement; Chapter One Preservation vs. Demolition; Chapter Two Antagonizing Views on Beijing's City Planning; Chapter Three The "Liang-Chen Proposal"; Chapter Four Controversy on "Liang-Chen Proposal"; Chapter Five Controversy on Dawuding; Chapter Six Perplexities of the Wise; Chapter Seven Pedantism; Chapter Eight Blueprint Revealed; Chapter Nine Clean Break between the Old and the New; Chapter Ten Lingering Sound, Hard to Die; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613148353

9781283148351

1283148358

9789814295734

9814295736

OCLC:

742333501