With a comprehensive methodology in urban studies, Urban China opens up a discussion on the idea of ‘future city’, raising questions on its theoretical development, historical context, and cross-disciplinary conceptualisation, putting forward case studies in China, Japan, Singapore, Canada, the Netherlands, France and so forth.
This book is a documentation of two Urban Design Festivals held in Shenzhen and Shanghai from 2018 to 2020. By tracking the process of these two regeneration projects and revisiting them over a two-year period, the book investigates the use of design interventions in local communities, including several design schemes that have undergone rounds of revision in the design phase as well as delays during construction.
Enlivening Suzhou: Design-Driven Strategies and Practices is a publication compiled upon the closing of the 3rd Suzhou Design Week.Other than a mere collection of design works, traditional crafts and folk culture presented in Suzhou Design Week, the editorial team from Urban China hopes the book would bring critical reflections on Suzhou’s history (urban development), urban assets (architecture, industry, classical gardens, waterways), and essential cultural elements (people, dialect, traditional operas), upon which, the future potentials of Suzhou (new cultural economy, spatial revitalization, digital urban experience, urban regeneration) will be radically re-imagined.
This book is the exhibition catalogue of the 2017 Shanghai Urban Space Art Season (SUSAS) Case Exhibition. It was compiled by the SUSAS Exhibition Catalogue Editorial Committee, with the assistance of the Urban China magazine in writing and interviews.
For people who are interested in HDD’s Sunrise Kempinski Hotel project, this is the best reading for sure. The Sunrise Hotel, compiled by architects and designers at HDD, as well as Beijing Enterprise Group, presents the project in great detail from its commencement to the final result.
With Shanghai Century Publishing taking the lead, Urban China published the China Now series (ten books). The series was highly recommended on Frankfurt Book Fair as a key project of Chinese urban studies.
Made in Expo selected the most valuable, popular and exquisite eighteen pavilions of the Shanghai Expo. Details of conceptualization, planning, designing and construction of each pavilion were included in the book. Stories about every architect and every piece of works were illustrated with creative visual design. For architecture enthusiasts as well as common readers, it is an Expo of architecture on paper that
"never ends".
This book can be viewed as the fruit of a several years’ program named “Deutschland und China”: Sustainable architecture and urban development. It covers indepth interviews with architects and planners working in a dozen of German architects in China.
They shared their concepts of architects and the interpretations of sustainable urban development, the related exper iences, the market mode, and their understandings of cultural communications.
With a comprehensive methodology in urban studies, Urban China opens up a discussion on the idea of ‘future city’, rai...
This book is a documentation of two Urban Design Festivals held in Shenzhen and Shanghai from 2018 to 2020. By tracking ...
Enlivening Suzhou: Design-Driven Strategies and Practices is a publication compiled upon the closing of the 3rd Suzhou D...
This book is the exhibition catalogue of the 2017 Shanghai Urban Space Art Season (SUSAS) Case Exhibition. It was compil...
For people who are interested in HDD’s Sunrise Kempinski Hotel project, this is the best reading for sure. The Sunrise ...
With Shanghai Century Publishing taking the lead, Urban China published the China Now series (ten books). The series was...
Made in Expo selected the most valuable, popular and exquisite eighteen pavilions of the Shanghai Expo. Details of conce...
This book can be viewed as the fruit of a several years’ program named “Deutschland und China”: Sustainable architect...