Kentucky Christian University

Villages in the city, a guide to South China's informal settlements, edited by Stefan Al ; contributing editors: Paul Chu Hoi Shan, Claudia Juhre, Ivan Valin, and Casey Wang

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Villages in the city

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edited by Stefan Al ; contributing editors: Paul Chu Hoi Shan, Claudia Juhre, Ivan Valin, and Casey Wang

a guide to South China's informal settlements

Urban villages are a unique phenomenon that shows an interesting side of urban and demographic change in China. This book argues for the value of urban villages as places. To reveal their qualities, a series of drawings and photographs uncovers the immense concentration of social life in their dense structures and provides a peek into residents' homes and daily lives. Organized in a guidebook fashion and lavishly illustrated, the book embodies a different type of scholarly work that is accessible to general readers. Essays written from the disciplines of urban planning, geography and architect

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""The City in between the Villages""; ""The Beginning of the End: Planning the Destruction of Guangzhouâ€?s Urban Villages""; ""City-in-the-Village: Huanggang and Chinaâ€?s Urban Renewal""; ""A Village by the Special Economic Zone: The Dafen Paradigm of Chinaâ€?s Urbanization""; ""Village-in-the-City as a Sustainable Form of Social Housing Communities for China: A Tale of Four Villages in Shenzhen""; ""The Big Picture""; ""Xiasha Village ä??æ²?æ??""; ""Dafen Village å? æ??""; ""Gangxia Village å??å»?æ??""