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Building new towns in China – A case study of Zhengdong New District
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Zhengdong New District as discussed by the authors was designed by the Japanese architect, Kisho Kurokawa (1934-2007), and it was constructed in 5 years with monumental buildings and grand plazas.About:
This article is published in Cities.The article was published on 2013-02-01. It has received 54 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Redevelopment & China.read more
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The impact of urban growth patterns on urban vitality in newly built-up areas based on an association rules analysis using geographical ‘big data’
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper used association rule analysis to explore the relationship between different urban growth patterns on urban vitality, and the results indicate that different forms of urban growth have different effects on urban life.
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Seeing ghosts: parsing China’s “ghost city” controversy
Max D. Woodworth,Jeremy Wallace +1 more
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper examined key questions related to the ghost city phenomenon, such as: what is a ghost city? Are ghost cities driven by a tendency toward over-supply in housing? How are local-level political incentives aligned to foster the production of ghost cities?
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Modernism in late-Mao China: a critical analysis on state-sponsored buildings in Beijing, Guangzhou and overseas, 1969-1976
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a Declaration and Table of Table of Contents for the first time, together with a Table of contents: http://www.saliency.org.
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Ghost Cities Analysis Based on Positioning Data in China.
Guanghua Chi,Yu Liu,Haishan Wu +2 more
TL;DR: This study presents the spatial distribution of the vacant housing areas in China and classifies cities with a large vacant housing area as cities or tourism sites and detects and analyzed the ghost cities in China at such fine scale for the first time.
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Urban investment and development corporations, new town development and China’s local state restructuring – the case of Songjiang new town, Shanghai
Jie Li,L. H. Rebecca Chiu +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a microscopic investigation of urban investment and development corporations (UIDCs) was conducted to understand China's new urban space production and associated state space rescaling through a microscopic analysis of the companies.
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Brandscapes: Architecture in the Experience Economy
TL;DR: Brandscapes as mentioned in this paper examines the benefits of the controversial practice of branding by examining its benefits and considering the damage it may do, and argues that architecture can use the concepts and methods of branding not as a quick-and-easy selling tool for architects but as a strategic tool for economic and cultural transformation.
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Building A Revolution: Chinese Architecture Since 1980
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a picture of Chinese architecture in transition, as the entire economy shifted from being planned and state-controlled to being market-led, and present a model of the transition from state control to market control.
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Importation and adaptation: building ‘one city and nine towns’ in Shanghai: a case study of Vittorio Gregotti's plan of Pujiang Town
Charlie Q. L. Xue,Minghao Zhou +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors tried to find the answers through a case study of Vittorio Gregotti's design for Pujiang Town and some other new towns in Shanghai, China, and showed different methodologies adopted by various foreign architects, and how the ideal concepts are transformed into real buildings.
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New towns in East and South-east Asia : planning and development
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a study of the variety of planning objectives and principles, characteristics and problems on new town development in Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Malaysia, Japan, China and the Philippines.