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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Urban Villages"”.
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Public realm usage patterns : lessons from Shenzhen's disappearing urban villages
Shenzhen's villages in the city or urban villages are forms of informal settlement that emerged in the midst of rapid Chinese urbanization. For a period of time, both the city and villages mutually benefited from the arrangement where rural-designated urban villages used their unrestricted …
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Interstitial DenCity : an architectural apparatus of political mediations in Chinese urban villages
… development between industrialization and urbanization. This process of land commodification has resulted in the demolition of existing productive urban fabric such as urban villages. And yet paradoxically suffering from both high vacancy rates and exorbitant property prices, developed …
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A different place in the making: the everyday practices of rural migrants in Chinese urban villages
… an ethnographic research into two Chinese urban villages, where thousands of rural migrants who were bureaucratically categorised as ‘floating population’ established their settlements in the city. The goal of the research is to display the place-making process through the everyday …
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Urbanism with Chinese Characteristics and the Right to the City : The Regeneration of Urban-Villages in Guangzhou, China
… to describe and evaluate the transformation of urban form in the Pearl River Delta (PRD), China, with a particular focus on the relations between social processes and spatial forms in the context of the regeneration of urban-villages in Guangzhou. Referring to in-depth interviews with key …
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Nothing is Perfect, But Something is Just Right: Redevelopment of Inner-Ring Suburbs - Integrating Ecological Systems into Modern Urban Villages
… the amenities necessary to support a walkable Urban Village center are present within a half mile in each direction along the route. The project proposes a design for revealing a continuous flow stream channel currently piped underground and creating integrated stormwater detention basins along …
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Co-Exist
Chinese urban villages which have grown over time have difficulty to operate as a healthy urban environment. As a consequence, residents are often forced to move to the boundary of the city although many prefer its narrow streets and the informality of life. This thesis proposes a modern …
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High Density Residential Design
… is one the most significant phenomena of China's urbanization. In the thirty years since the "Reform and Open Up" policy began, Guangzhou has experienced economic growth and urban expansion and attracted a vast number of migrants. Seen as the product of the rapid urbanization, urban villages …
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Hydrological urbanism in China's Pearl River Delta : how water landscape shapes the urban form in a changing climate
When standing among urban villages, residential towers and warehouses in an urbanizing city in the Pearl River delta (PRD), it is hard to imagine that just forty years ago this area was filled with streams, ponds and rice paddies. Since the Reform in 1978, the PRD metropolitan area, with the name …
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Mediating spaces : a jazz village for Paterson, New Jersey
… continuation of larger interests in the idea of "urban villages" and the nature and role of neighborhoods and communities in the larger urban context. I think of Paterson as a very physical city: the powerful waterfalls, the rugged palisades, the austere mill architecture and the intense urban …
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Invisible village: A potential alternative for urban village redevelopment in China
… and culturally identifiable community in an urban village redevelopment project in Langfang, China? ABSTRACT This research explores an alternative architectural strategy for urban village regeneration, focusing on Dong Village in Langfang, China. The project investigates how architectural …
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Health and Nutrition of the Elderly in Botswana
… methods were used to obtain data for the study. Villages and towns were selected in three strata: urban, urban villages, and rural. In the secondary data analysis section of the study, 1086 elderly subjects were interviewed, while 99 were interviewed for the cross-sectional survey component of …
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The Physical and Economic Regeneration of the South Wales Valleys through Partnership
Composed of a bloc of "urban villages", the South Wales Valleys have undergone continuous physical and economic decline in the last 60-70 years, due to the shrinkage of their backbone industries of coal mining and steel. The regeneration of the Valleys is therefore on the agenda of the government. …
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Migrants and modernisation : a study of change in Lao society
… focusses on the interaction between rural-to-urban migration on the one hand, and 'modernisation' on the other, in the fields of economic, political and social relations in Lao society.The introduction presents the concepts and research methods used and the design of the thesis. It emphasises …