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1 online resource |
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Ashgate Studies in Architecture Ser |
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Ashgate Studies in Architecture Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introducing hybrid modernity -- Post-Mao transformations: framing hybrid modernity -- China's physical setting and settlement patterns -- Book scope and structure -- References -- Chapter 2 Navigating modern(s) and the park in modern China -- Modernization: social construction and nation-building -- Modernity, globalization and identity -- Hybrid modernization: expanding modernization theory and alternative modernities |
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Re-visiting modernism (international) genre -- Modernism in architecture and landscape architecture -- Modernity in China -- China's early modernity and westernization -- Forced (colonial) modernity -- The public park, Republican modernity (1912-1949) and nation-building -- Mao's modernity: 1949-1976 -- Synopsizing China's modern experience -- References -- Chapter 3 Pre-modern China: Nature, cosmology, mythology and the Chinese Picturesque -- Nature, cosmology, mythology and folklore -- Brief history of China's designed landscapes -- Interpreting garden-making throughout pre-modern China |
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Chinese Picturesque garden design language -- References -- Chapter 4 Looking "inside" and "outside" post-Mao China -- A glance back at the arts and culture in the Mao era -- Inside post-Mao China -- Post-Mao art trends -- Trends in post-Mao China's built environment -- Post-Mao landscape architecture: foundations of professional practice and education -- Landscape architecture "outside" post-Mao China -- References -- Chapter 5 Revealing late 20th century hybrid modernity: Four purpose-built parks -- Case study one: Living Water Park, Huoshui Gongyuan, Chengdu, Sichuan Province |
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Chengdu context -- Project inception -- Design realization -- Hybrid modern synthesis -- Case study two: Zhongshan Shipyard Park, Zhongshan Shiqi Jiang Gongyuan, Zhongshan, Guangdong Province -- Zhongshan context -- Project inception -- Design realization -- Hybrid modern synthesis -- Case study three: Jinji Lake Landscape Master Plan, Jinji Hu Jingguan Zongti Guihua, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province -- Suzhou context -- Project inception -- Project realization -- Hybrid modern synthesis |
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Case study four: West Lake Southern Scenic Area Master Plan, Xihu Huanhu Nanxian Jingqu Zongti, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province -- West Lake, Hangzhou context -- Project inception -- Project realization -- SSA experience -- Lakeside One Park, Da Hua Hotel, Xi Hu Tiandi, Yongjin Park, Yongjin Square and King Qian Memorial Complex -- Orioles Singing in the Willows/Scholar Park, Long Bridge Park -- Nanshan Road streetscape and three major design elements -- Hybrid modern synthesis -- Four public parks -- the schema for post-Mao China's hybrid modernity -- References |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317119296 |
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1317119290 |
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