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Record Nr.

UNINA9910736988303321

Autore

Zhang Qinyi (Architect)

Titolo

The Elemental Metropolis : The Past and Future of the Extended Urbanity in the Yangtze River Delta, China / / by Qinyi Zhang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023

ISBN

9783031364099

3031364090

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 239 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

The Urban Book Series, , 2365-7588

Disciplina

307.7609512

Soggetti

Landscape architecture

Design

Urban ecology (Biology)

Landscape Architecture

Urban Ecology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Yangtze River delta and the discovery of a third space -- Elements: A case study of Tangqi -- Layers: Reading the territory -- Systems: Construction of a Utopia -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a multi-scale reading of the spatial “elements” in which the extensive urbanity in Yangtze River Delta is constructed, and from there an imagination of a new paradigm of urbanization. The urbanization in Yangtze River Delta today is in need of a new interpretation and paradigm. The delta is a territory with city cores but it also has vast dispersed urbanization where the agricultural and non-agricultural activities and spaces are mixed and interlinked, a desakota (McGee, 1991). This book attempts to answer a basic question: what is the desakota in the Yangtze River Delta made of? The research Horizontal Metropolis led by Prof. Paola Viganò at EPFL, Switzerland focuses on the form of the contemporary city – the fragmentary spatial condition and dispersed urbanity all over the world. The study on Yangtze River delta is part of its research frame.