03003nam 22006255 450 991073698830332120251009082022.09783031364099303136409010.1007/978-3-031-36409-9(MiAaPQ)EBC30676475(Au-PeEL)EBL30676475(DE-He213)978-3-031-36409-9(OCoLC) 1393207515(PPN)272265578(CKB)27935712100041(OCoLC)1393207515(EXLCZ)992793571210004120230804d2023 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Elemental Metropolis The Past and Future of the Extended Urbanity in the Yangtze River Delta, China /by Qinyi Zhang1st ed. 2023.Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :Imprint: Springer,2023.1 online resource (x, 239 pages) illustrations (some color)The Urban Book Series,2365-7588Print version: Zhang, Qinyi The Elemental Metropolis Cham : Springer,c2023 9783031364082 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.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.The Urban Book Series,2365-7588Landscape architectureDesignUrban ecology (Biology)Landscape ArchitectureDesignUrban EcologyLandscape architecture.Design.Urban ecology (Biology)Landscape Architecture.Design.Urban Ecology.307.7609512307.7609512Zhang Qinyi(Architect)1432420MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910736988303321The elemental metropolis3577143UNINA