Beijing record a physical and political history of planning modern Beijing.

Beijing Record, the result of ten years of research on the urban transformation of Beijing in the last fifty years, brings to an extended Western audience the inside story on the key decisions that led to Beijing's present urban fragmentation and its loss of memory and history in the form of bu...

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Main Author Jun, Wang
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Singapore World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd 2011
World Scientific
WORLD SCIENTIFIC
WSPC
Subjects
Architecture
Asian Culture
Asian History
China Studies
City planning
City planning > China > Beijing > History
Literary Studies
Literature
Beijing
Demolition
Planning
Preservation
Liang Sicheng
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Summary:Beijing Record, the result of ten years of research on the urban transformation of Beijing in the last fifty years, brings to an extended Western audience the inside story on the key decisions that led to Beijing's present urban fragmentation and its loss of memory and history in the form of bulldozing its architectural heritage. Wang's publication presents a survey of the main developments and government-level (both central and municipal) decisions, devoting a lot of attention to the 1950s and 1960s, when Beijing experienced a critical wave of transformative events.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9789814295727
9814295728
DOI:10.1142/7648