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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Hutong"”.
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Neighborhood design and public life : lessons from Beijing's hutong and superblocks
Beijing's Hutong, centuries-old neighborhoods composed of narrow streets and courtyard housing, are famous for harboring a tight-knit social fabric and a vibrant public realm. Over the past thirty years, large-scale redevelopment of hutong neighborhoods has occurred, and new neighborhoods in …
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Evaluation of the Effects of Bottom-Up Management in Preserving Values of Historic Hutong Neighborhood in Beijing: A Case Study of Community-Based Organization (CBO) - Shijia Hutong Historic Preservation Society
… implementation in the late 1990s, the Beijing Hutong neighborhood renewal has become an important trigger for the municipal governments to engage with the real estate market. Yet over the years, the official forces have been facing increasing challenges in the development of politics, …
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From hutong to hi-rise : explaining the transformation of Old Beijing, 1990-2002
… of courtyard houses (siheyuan) and narrow lanes (hutongs) to one comprised of wide roads and hi-rise buildings. This thesis starts from the premise that this redevelopment has had devastating social and cultural costs in terms of excessive relocation and destruction of the historic urban fabric …
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A Cinematic Approach to the Practice of Everyday Life: The Case of the Beijing Hutong
… into the lived and practised spaces in Beijing’s Hutong neighbourhoods, and thus broadening the existing knowledge of this dwelling type within the scope of the everyday. With the help of digital tools, lived data of Hutong dwellers’ daily practices (time of the day, quotidian activities, social …
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Micro architecture : architecture for daily social activities within Beijing's hutongs
… daily social activities within Beijing's 25 hutong-preserved districts. Hutongs were the historical tiny alleys distributed infinitely within Beijing and the typical public spaces for the local inhabitants. Because of the rapid urbanizations, hutongs no more can play the role so the micro …
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Transforming space in the Old City of Beijing
… differentiated courtyard architecture and the "hutong" neighborhood structure - has gradually been replaced by monolithic separated forms and wide roads under modernization. Through designing a current urban renewal project in the old city of Beijing, this thesis explores alternative ways to …
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Collective urban block
… historical urban forms of courtyard house and Hutong (alley). This thesis uses the vocabulary of historical neighborhood of Beijing, and investigates how collectivity can be formed through relational aspects of elements of architecture, such as courtyard, alley, window, balcony and terrace. …
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Spectacle as Myth: Guanxi, the relational and the urban quotidian in contemporary Chinese art (2005-2008)
… a Chinese from the diaspora, born in a Beijing hutong and whose father's early professional life was inextricably linked to that of Mao.
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Dematerializing the City
The project is a local cultural center located in Gulou area in the old city center of Beijing, China. This urban intervention establishes a series of harmonious relationships between the city and the architecture, between the urban and the autonomous and between the old and the new . The pattern …