Urban code of china / Dieter Hassenpflug

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 How to read a city? 2 Transformations of empty urban space Pajamas and clotheslines Open and public urban places Rocks and plants 3 Swinging lines and dancing dots 4 Closed urban space Closed neighborhoods Introverted neighborhood courtyards Roof and light sculptures Branding compound lifestyles Orient meets Occident -- hybrid urban quarters 5 Open urban space Linear centrality or the magic of the Golden Corridor Open neighborhood spaces Integrated perimeter block strips Neighborhood pedestrian streets Neighborhood and community centers The sutlers of urban growth Mediapolis Postmodern eclecticism in urban planning and design 6 Urban fictions Shanghai s new satellite cities A piece of good old Germany : Anting New Town European travesties of the Chinese city Taiwushi New Town (Thames Town) Luodian New Town (the Nordic city) Holland Village in Shenyang: an urban parody View from the Eiffel Tower towards Angkor Wat 7 The compact city Great street -- vertical block Shenzhen s urban villages The big city River jumping Hyper-growth 8 The Chinese city as a semiotic system Summary Annotations Bibliography Illustration credits

Was ist das Chinesische an der chinesischen Stadt? Ihre Syntax? Ihr Code? Durch seine Entschlüsselung vermag der Autor die Vielfalt der empirischen Eindrücke zu ordnen und auch aktuelle, von europäischen Architekten geplante Stadtgründungen in China neu zu "lesen".