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

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...

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1. Verfasser: Wang, Jun
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Chinese
Veröffentlicht: Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, ©2011.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxii, 512 pages :)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789814295734
9814295736
1283148358
9781283148351

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