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Learning from… China
In Urbanising Southern China: Poverty, Minorities, and Development, Gregory Guldin examines the social and environmental consequences of accelerated industrialisation in China, as agricultural villages become dense urban agglomerations at unprecedented rates. A specialist in Chinese urbanisation, ethnicity, and politics, Gregory Guldin is Professor of Anthropology at the(...)
3 May 2007
Learning from… China
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In Urbanising Southern China: Poverty, Minorities, and Development, Gregory Guldin examines the social and environmental consequences of accelerated industrialisation in China, as agricultural villages become dense urban agglomerations at unprecedented rates. A specialist in Chinese urbanisation, ethnicity, and politics, Gregory Guldin is Professor of Anthropology at the(...)
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3 May 2007
Learning from... Shanghai
In 2001, Shanghai announced the development plan of “One City Nine Towns,” a series of towns each built around a theme inspired by a different Western tradition. Chinese urban theorist Xiangning Li examines the themed spaces in the city’s post-colonial context, relating them to Shanghai’s contemporary urban culture and situating them within the changing dynamics between(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
7 May 2009
Learning from... Shanghai
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In 2001, Shanghai announced the development plan of “One City Nine Towns,” a series of towns each built around a theme inspired by a different Western tradition. Chinese urban theorist Xiangning Li examines the themed spaces in the city’s post-colonial context, relating them to Shanghai’s contemporary urban culture and situating them within the changing dynamics between(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Learning from... Tongzhou
It has been standard Chinese urban policy to develop new towns in overpopulated metropolitan regions since the 1990s. This lecture by Jing Zhou takes the case of Tongzhou near Beijing as an example of the resulting mixture of planned and unplanned urban development.Tongzhou town was first planned as a satellite town in the 1950s and founded on a historic harbour town. Its(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
10 April 2014 , 6pm
Learning from... Tongzhou
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It has been standard Chinese urban policy to develop new towns in overpopulated metropolitan regions since the 1990s. This lecture by Jing Zhou takes the case of Tongzhou near Beijing as an example of the resulting mixture of planned and unplanned urban development.Tongzhou town was first planned as a satellite town in the 1950s and founded on a historic harbour town. Its(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Learning from... Ordos
The coal- and gas-rich city of Ordos in northern China boasts a new central district devoid of people. The contemporary city centre was built from scratch on the arid Mongolian steppe at a cost of over $161 billion, and was projected to house over 1 million people. Currently, the government claims that 28,000 reside in the new area. Despite the lack of residents, property(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
8 November 2012 , 7pm
Learning from... Ordos
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The coal- and gas-rich city of Ordos in northern China boasts a new central district devoid of people. The contemporary city centre was built from scratch on the arid Mongolian steppe at a cost of over $161 billion, and was projected to house over 1 million people. Currently, the government claims that 28,000 reside in the new area. Despite the lack of residents, property(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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215 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Boston ; Basel ; Berlin : Birkhäuser, 2004.
Learning from China : the Tao of the city / Carl Fingerhuth.
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215 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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Boston ; Basel ; Berlin : Birkhäuser, 2004.
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1 videocassette (Mini-DV) (approximately 62 min.) : sound, color ; 1/4 in. master
[2007]
L'enseignement de-- China = Learning from-- China.
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Learning from... Tongzhou.
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1 streaming video file (57 min., 21 sec.) : sound, colour
[Montréal] : CCA, [2017]
Learning from... Tongzhou.
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[Montréal] : CCA, [2017]
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xiv, 283 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : maps ; 24 cm
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Learning from Shenzhen : China's post-Mao experiment from special zone to model city / edited by Mary Ann O'Donnell, Winnie Wong, and Jonathan Bach.
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xiv, 283 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : maps ; 24 cm
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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
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2 streaming video files (40 min., 29 sec. ; sound, colour 31 min., 10 sec.) :
Learning from... Hong Kong : Rufina Wu and Stefan Canham, 2012 May 3.
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327 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 x 28 cm
[Hong Kong] : Timezone 8, ©2009.
Learning from Hangzhou = 向杭州学习 / Mathieu Borysevicz ; preface by Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown ; [translations by, Yang Yan, Mao Weidong, Fiona He]. Learning from Hangzhou = Xiang Hangzhou xue xi / Mathieu Borysevicz ; preface by Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown ; [translations by, Yang Yan, Mao Weidong, Fiona He].
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327 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 x 28 cm
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[Hong Kong] : Timezone 8, ©2009.