The Socio-spatial Design of Community and Governance : Interdisciplinary Urban Design in China / edited by Sam Jacoby, Jingru (Cyan) Cheng.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Urban.

Human geography.

Urban Sociology.

Human Geography.

Local Subjects:

Urban Sociology.

Human Geography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (IX, 237 p. 196 illus., 163 illus. in color.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2020.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2020.

Summary:

This book proposes a new interdisciplinary understanding of urban design in China based on a study of the transformative effects of socio-spatial design and planning on communities and their governance. This is framed by an examination of the social projects, spaces, and realities that have shaped three contexts critical to the understanding of urban design problems in China: the histories of “collective forms” and “collective spaces”, such as that of the urban danwei (work-unit), which inform current community building and planning; socio-spatial changes in urban and rural development; and disparate practices of “spatialised governmentality”. These contexts and an attendant transformation from planning to design and from government to governance, define the current urban design challenges found in the dominant urban xiaoqu (small district) and shequ (community) development model. Examining the histories, transformations, and practices that have shaped socio-spatial epistemologies and experiences in China – including a specific sense of community and place that is rather based on a concrete “collective” than abstract “public” space and underpinned by socialised governance – this book brings together a diverse range of observations, thoughts, analyses, and projects by urban researchers and practitioners. Thereby discussing emerging interdisciplinary urban design practices in China, this book offers a valuable resource for all academics, practitioners, and stakeholders with an interest in socio-spatial design and development. .

Contents:

Urban design and spatialised governmentality: Collective forms in China

Collective forms in China: An architectural analysis of the people’s commune

Grassroots governance in rural China before China’s reform and opening up

Rethinking the spatial prototype and operational organization of the chinese danwei system from a collective perspective.

ISBN:

981-15-6811-1

OCLC:

1232278164