Haussmann and Le Corbusier in China: Land Control and the Design of Streets in Urban Redevelopment

Abramson, Daniel Benjamin

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“…In terms of the physical characteristics of enclosed neighborhoods and their relation to the overall urban morphology, Abramson (2008) suggests that enclosed blocks turn their back on the streets and other public urban spaces. In collectivized and enclosed neighborhoods, social life is inwardly organized and does not concern the possibilities of social interactions in more widely shared urban public places.…”

Section: Conclusion: Urban Planning As Sociological Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…His study of street design in Quanzhou also suggests that Southern coastal cities, standardized, superblock-style compounds appeared much less often. In Quanzhou, social life was organized along the streets rather than inward-looking residential blocks (Abramson 2008). Indeed, these forms of urban living created a socially positive socioeconomic and occupational mixture, whose presence enacted a forceful counternarrative to the enclosure of social life.…”

Section: Does An Essential Cultural Tradition Still Live?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Deciphering the Prevalence of Neighborhood Enclosure Amidst Post-1949 Chinese Cities

Qian

2013

Journal of Planning Literature

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With a literature review of China's urbanism after the establishment of the communist state in 1949, this article brings into readers' attention that post-1949 urban China has been characterized by various types of enclosed neighborhoods throughout the Maoist and post-reform eras. The main purpose of this review is to trace the social, economic, and political contexts of diverse practices of enclosure, and analyze how these practices work to consolidate dominant economic and social relations in specific historical periods. This distinct aspect of Chinese urbanism is interwoven with particular sociopolitical institutions and processes of place making and space production.

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Section: Conclusion: Urban Planning As Sociological Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Does An Essential Cultural Tradition Still Live?mentioning

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Deciphering the Prevalence of Neighborhood Enclosure Amidst Post-1949 Chinese Cities

Qian

2013

Journal of Planning Literature

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“…Meanwhile, since the patches derived by ASA techniques can be considered analogous to residential neighbourhoods, the disruptions as a result of supergrid development are not just concerned with the spatio-configurational conservation aspect, but may be seen as further concerned with the relocation or loss of existing local neighbourhoods, or "communities," within the historic urban area. Relatedly, Sim (2010) actually notes some newspaper articles of the time reporting how the residents of Seoul's HCC protested against the demolition of their towns for road construction; another study by Abramson (2008), though different in terms of its detailed study area and aims, addresses similar concerns regarding the disruption of communities by Corbusian, superblock approaches in the redevelopment of historic urban areas.…”

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Evaluating the consequences of supergrid developments with relation to the modernization and conservation of historic street patterns: a case study on early 20th century Seoul

Joo

Kwon

2020

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering

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Planned supergrid developments are influential on both the modernization and conservation of historic street patterns and their spatial structures, but related discussions have so far remained largely at prescriptive or normative levels without an in-depth empirical basis. Through a case study on the historic city centre of Seoul by devising and applying a systematic framework of space syntax analysis incorporating relatively recent, less known but elaborate techniques, this study therefore empirically analysed the detailed spatioconfigurational changes that occur when such plans are implemented and evaluated what their consequences may be with relation to the modernization and conservation of historic street patterns. While a variety of empirical evidence presents the spatio-configurational mechanisms of the planned supergrid consistently facilitating the historic street system's modernization, results related to its conservation are mixed; the original spatial structure and order does become disrupted at the background and local-scale foreground levels but contrary to conventional perceptions it is spatially succeeded and expanded at the global-scale foreground level, and streets comprising the supergrid that had already existed before its development have a milder impact than newly constructed ones. Implications for the sustainable management and planning of historic street patterns and their spatial context are further discussed.

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“…Like the public spaces in the urban villages, its streets fail to adhere to the normative standards of functionality and appearance (Abramson, 2008). They are considered narrow, under-lit, dirty and non-partitioned spaces, where cars, motorcycles, bikes and pedestrians chaotically vie for right of way.…”

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Placing the Urban Village: A Spatial Perspective on the Development Process of Urban Villages in Contemporary China

Kochan

2015

Int J Urban Regional Res

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The rapid urbanization of China since the mid‐1980s has led to the development of a new spatial category, the urban village (chengzhongcun). The dominant neoliberal urban development regime approaches urban villages as a social, spatial, economic and political problem, and as targets for aggressive redevelopment and eradication policies. In this article, I propose a spatial perspective that makes use of several theoretical ‘anchors' to analyze the influence of urban village spatiality on its development process and to explore alternatives to the dominant redevelopment model. I begin by examining the spatial conceptualization of the urban village as a non‐place, arguing that this spatial reading undergirds the redevelopment‐by‐demolition model and tends to obscure alternative conceptualizations. I then move on to propose three alternative readings of urban village space, examining it as an everyday space, a liminal space and a neighborhood. Combining these three readings with the ‘non‐place' conceptualization provides a nuanced understanding of urban villages' unique spatial attributes and social roles, by evoking spatial and social processes that take place in most urban villages across China. Taken together, these spatial readings challenge the social and spatial rigidity of dominant representations of urban villages and supply a much‐needed spatially based conceptual framework that can be used to develop new urban planning models.

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Haussmann and Le Corbusier in China: Land Control and the Design of Streets in Urban Redevelopment

Cited by 24 publications

References 21 publications

Deciphering the Prevalence of Neighborhood Enclosure Amidst Post-1949 Chinese Cities

Deciphering the Prevalence of Neighborhood Enclosure Amidst Post-1949 Chinese Cities

Evaluating the consequences of supergrid developments with relation to the modernization and conservation of historic street patterns: a case study on early 20th century Seoul

Placing the Urban Village: A Spatial Perspective on the Development Process of Urban Villages in Contemporary China

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