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• Title:Walkable cities in high density China : livable, healthy, and sustainable / Lan Wang [and 7 others].
  
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• Author/Creator:Wang, Lan, author.
  
• Published/Created:[Shanghai, China] : Tongji University Press, [2017]
  

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  • Call Number: NA9265 .W35 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:City planning--China.
  Pedestrian areas--China--Planning.
  City planning--Health aspects--China.
  Urban renewal--China.
  
• Description:243 pages : illustrations, maps, plans (some color) ; 25 cm
  
• Summary:"Modern Chinese cities, which have been developed at a rapid speed and a massive scale for about thirty years, are confronted with many challenges to becoming more livable, healthy, and sustainable. Among a variety of design principles this book suggests that walkability is the fundamental principle to improving quality of life. A walkable city provides a convenient and comfortable walking and cycling environment for all local residents. This book attempts to explore the design innovation to create a walkable city and propose solutions within the high-density cities - Shenzhen and Shanghai. Selected cases include an urban village in Shenzhen and the CBD and a workers' community in Shanghai as different spatial samples to apply specific design strategies for a livable, healthy, and sustainable city."--Publisher's description.
  
• Notes:Place of publication from website.
  Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:9787560872155 paperback
  7560872158 paperback
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 01. Introduction: Walkabiuty And The Right To The City / Maria Chiara Tosi
  02. Intermediate Scale Versus Extremeness / Aldo Aymonino
  03. Ground China Starting From Villages / Mirna Zordan
  Case Study: Urban Village
  3.1. Cangxia Rules
  3.2. Slow mobility network
  3.3. Ground motion
  04. CBD: A New Porosity
  Case Study: Central Business District
  4.1. Lujiazui morphology
  4.2. Pedestrian multilevel networks
  4.3. Multilevel Porosity
  05. Sharing Paths / Silvia Maroso
  Case Study: Caoyanc New Village
  5.1. Caoyang morphology
  5.2. Shared spaces
  5.3. Permeable Caoyang
  06. Synthetic City / Alex Pellizer
  Case Study: Caoyang New Village
  6.1. Urban porosity in Caoyang New Village
  6.2. Connect to regenerate
  6.3. "Walk-in-progress" scenario
  07. Where Buildings And Actions Interpenetrate / Gianni Talamini
  7.1. Walter Benjamin, Deng Xiaoping and Portofino
  7.2. notion of porosity
  7.3. Porosity in Shenzhen
  7.4. Visualizing porosity
  7.5. tabula rasa and turnkey city
  7.6. Sensible-forms of Portofino
  7.7. New perspectives
  08. Conclusion: Walking Toward A Healty City / Lan Wang.