The development of modern urban housing in China over the past 160 years is examined in this volume. From the beginnings of China's modernization after the Opium Wars to the latest trends adopted after the market reforms of the 1980s, this publication offers a broad overview of the developments in buildign construction and design. Urban housing in China is one of the most important components of China's modernization, industrialization and urbanization. The period from 1840 to 2000 saw great changes in Chinese policy and society and is discussed here in three stages: the modernization of China's semi-feudal, semi-colonial society, the rise of publicly owned housing under socialism in the People's Republic of China, and the rapid growth of a new market economy under Deng Xiaoping in the late 1970s. When examing changes in urban housing types, the authors take into account not only conventional architectural history, but also underlying political, economic, social, technological, and cultural forces.
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Urban housing in China is one of the most important components of China's modernization, industrialization, and urbanization. The period from 1840 to 2000 saw great changes in Chinese policy and society and is discussed in three stages: the modernization of China's semi-feudal, semi-colonial society, the rise of publically owned housing under socialism in the People's Republic of China, and the rapid growth of a new market economy under Deng Xiaopeng in the late 1970's. When examining changes in urban housing types, the authors take into account not only conventional architectural history, but also underlying political, economic, social, cultural, and technological forces. The reult is a complete picture of the history of modern urban housing in China based on extensive literature and numerous field studies.
About the Author
Professor Lu Junhua is a professor at the School of Architecture of Tsinghua University, He has been focusing on housing since the early 1950's.
Professor Peter Rowe is Dean of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He is the author of numerous publications on the topics of architecture and urban planning, including "Projecting Beirut", also published by Prestel.
Professor Zhang Jie has worked on urban conservation since he returned to China from Great Britain in the early 1990's and now works in the housing field.
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Decent enough history from a mainland perspective,
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'Modern Urban Housing' is a thorough history of housing in China, although there is a definite bias towards what ocurred in Shanghai and northern China. Except for editing and the conclusion by P. Rowe, this book was written entirely by mainland academics, so there is 'precise' statistic after statistic that ends up overloading the reader rather than helping to clarify and provide context. It also bogs the reading down and is not mitigated by their review of of China's contemporaneous political events wherein thay are seemingly writing so as not to offend the party overseers (although this is my own bias speaking). Since this is for westerners, this book would have been helped by a more active collaboration with a westerner from the beginning.
However, there is little else out there in English for people who would like to learn about this subject and the illustrations/photos are plentiful enough and serve to illuminate the writing.
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