Beijing

The New City

Claudio Greco, Carlo Santoro

272 pages, parution le 12/05/2008

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Over the past fifteen years Beijing has experienced unprecedented change-a change more dramatic and profound than ever before. Contemporary skyscrapers and architectural forms are gradually enclosing the historic city center. Steel and glass structures, constructions reminiscent of distant metropolises, highways, viaducts, and sports facilities have given Beijing a new face.

Speed, combined with ever-changing rules and regulations, are the main characteristics of contemporary Beijing's transformation. Understanding this process means arranging intermediate and transitional phases into a logical sequence, in a historical and urban context of reference.

The speed at which the city is changing means that the work site phase and the actual moment of transformation have become an integral part of project elaboration, thereby influencing and modifying its development. This state of sudden and seemingly chaotic evolution is nonetheless supported by an urban structure dating back thousands of years and by a well-defined past. It is essential to understand this in order to identify the continuity in the midst of change, which in itself seems to be the real essence of the city's evolution.

Sommaire

Beijing,the contemporary metropolis
History of the city until the 1990s
1992-2007 : the definitive turning point. Foundations and change
The new urban layout
New architecture
Emerging characters
Topographical maps

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Skira
Auteur(s)	Claudio Greco, Carlo Santoro
Parution	12/05/2008
Nb. de pages	272
Format	16,5 x 21
Couverture	Broché
Poids	845g
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9788861303027
ISBN13	978-88-6130-302-7