《The Habitable City in China》是Palgrave Macmillan出版的圖書，作者是Toby Lincoln，Xu Tao
基本介紹
- 中文名：The Habitable City in China
- 作者：Toby Lincoln、Xu Tao
- 出版社：Palgrave Macmillan
- 出版時間：2016年11月28日
- 頁數：231 頁
- 定價：129 美元
- 裝幀：Hardcover
- ISBN：9781137554703
內容簡介
This book offers a new perspective on Chinese urban history by exploring cities as habitable spaces. China, the world’s most populous nation, is now its newest urban society, and the pace of this unprecedented historical transformation has increased in recent decades. The contributors to this book conceptualise cities as first providing the necessities of life, and then becomin...(展開全部) This book offers a new perspective on Chinese urban history by exploring cities as habitable spaces. China, the world’s most populous nation, is now its newest urban society, and the pace of this unprecedented historical transformation has increased in recent decades. The contributors to this book conceptualise cities as first providing the necessities of life, and then becoming places in which the quality of life can be improved. They focus on how cities have been made secure during times of instability, how their inhabitants have consumed everything from the simplest of foods to the most expensive luxuries, and how they have been planned as ideal spaces. Drawing examples from across the country, this book offers comparisons between different cities, highlights continuities across time and space—and in doing so may provide solutions to some of the problems that continue to affect Chinese cities today.
