Heritage-led Urban Regeneration in China (Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design)

Urban planning, regeneration and design is an essentially cultural practice with the outcomes often depending upon an understanding of and engagement with the past. As cities in China strive to be competitive and attractive on the world stage, their decaying historical urban fabrics are being transformed into vibrant places through historical-cultural led urban regeneration, however, the impact of their rapid development has escaped serious scrutiny. Heritage-led Urban Regeneration in China presents the detailed evolution of three well-known historic streets in China: the Southern Song Imperial Street in Hangzhou; the residential Pingjiang Street in Suzhou; and the commercial Tunxi Old Street in Huangshan. From their original formation to their more recent regeneration, this book offers a critical evaluation of historical-cultural led urban regeneration projects in China and provides theoretical guidelines for contemporary practice in relation to its tangible and intangible urban heritage. Using interdisciplinary research in architecture, urban design, history and cultural studies, Jing Xie and Tim Heath provide a detailed analysis of the conservation and regeneration efforts of China as an emerging and pivotal world power. An invaluable resource for urban designers, urban planners and architects interested in and working in China, Heritage-led Urban Regeneration in Chinahelps its readers to engage with the essential and invisible factors that produce these revitalised places while forming a critical view towards these projects. e and intangible urban heritage. Using interdisciplinary research in architecture, urban design, history and cultural studies, Jing Xie and Tim Heath provide a detailed analysis of the conservation and regeneration efforts of China as an emerging and pivotal world power. An invaluable resource for urban designers, urban planners and architects interested in and working in China, Heritage-led Urban Regeneration in Chinahelps its readers to engage with the essential and invisible factors that produce these revitalised places while forming a critical view towards these projects.

Politics & Social Sciences

Heath, Tim

Xie, Jing

Sociology

Routledge

Revitalising Historic Urban Quarters

This book synthesizes urban design and urban regeneration by examining the revitalization of a number of historic urban quarters. Its focus is on quarters or areas where there is a significant number of historic buildings concentrated in a small area; with places and area-based approaches. Many cities have such quarters that confer on them a sense of place and identity through their historic continuity and cultural associations. The quarters are often an integral element of the city's image and identity. The lessons and observations from the experience of the revitalization of such historic urban quarters forms the core of this book with a number of case study examples from North America and Europe showing a variety of approaches to and outcomes of revitalization. Focuses on tensions between conservation and revitalization Wide range of case studies from around the world Synthesizes urban regeneration and urban design

Social Sciences

Public Places - Urban Spaces is a holistic guide to the many complex and interacting dimensions of urban design. The discussion moves systematically through ideas, theories, research and the practice of urban design from an unrivalled range of sources. It aids the reader by gradually building the concepts one upon the other towards a total view of the subject. The author team explain the catalysts of change and renewal, and explore the global and local contexts and processes within which urban design operates. The book presents six key dimensions of urban design theory and practice - the social, visual, functional, temporal, morphological and perceptual - allowing it to be dipped into for specific information, or read from cover to cover. This is a clear and accessible text that provides a comprehensive discussion of this complex subject. * Learn all you need to know about design of urban spaces from this one-stop introductory guide *Gain a comprehensive overview of the topic through the authors' holistic approach *Complex ideas are presented logically for ease of understanding

Public Places Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design

Oc, Taner

Tiesdell, Steven

Architectural Pr

The Song Birds (Tim Heath Stand-Alone Thrillers Collection)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Independently published

This book synthesizes urban design and urban regeneration by examining the revitalization of a number of historic urban quarters. Its focus is on quarters or areas where there is a significant number of historic buildings concentrated in a small area; with places and area-based approaches. Many cities have such quarters that confer on them a sense of place and identity through their historic continuity and cultural associations. The quarters are often an integral element of the city's image and identity. The lessons and observations from the experience of the revitalization of such historic urban quarters forms the core ofthis book with a number of case study examples from North America and Europe showing a variety of approaches to and outcomes of revitalization.

Tiesdell, Steve

Public Places - Urban Spaces

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Urban planning, regeneration and design is an essentially cultural practice with the outcomes often depending upon an understanding of and engagement with the past. As cities in China strive to be competitive and attractive on the world stage, their decaying historical urban fabrics are being transformed into vibrant places through historical-cultural led urban regeneration, however, the impact of their rapid development has escaped serious scrutiny.  Heritage-led Urban Regeneration in China presents the detailed evolution of three well-known historic streets in China: the Southern Song Imperial Street in Hangzhou; the residential Pingjiang Street in Suzhou; and the commercial Tunxi Old Street in Huangshan. From their original formation to their more recent regeneration, this book offers a critical evaluation of historical-cultural led urban regeneration projects in China and provides theoretical guidelines for contemporary practice in relation to its tangible and intangible urban heritage.  Using interdisciplinary research in architecture, urban design, history and cultural studies, Jing Xie and Tim Heath provide a detailed analysis of the conservation and regeneration efforts of China as an emerging and pivotal world power. An invaluable resource for urban designers, urban planners and architects interested in and working in China, Heritage-led Urban Regeneration in China helps its readers to engage with the essential and invisible factors that produce these revitalised places while forming a critical view towards these projects.

A valuable addition to the military and literary analysis of the archaeology of warfare from the Boudiccan uprising to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. Military and battlefield archaeology has always been&nbsp;viewed as a sub-discipline to that of&nbsp;traditional historical archaeology. Once&nbsp;considered the pursuit of learned history&nbsp;professors and their disciples today, military archaeology has flourished around the&nbsp;world into what can only best be described&nbsp;as a hugely popular pastime, and in some&nbsp;instances a multi-million-pound business.With technologies available today, even&nbsp;the student on the most modest of budgets&nbsp;can become an archaeologist (if only in the&nbsp;layman's term).&nbsp;Yet despite it's popularity in unearthing&nbsp;answers to the questions of our turbulent&nbsp;past, there are surprisingly few texts&nbsp;available on what is arguably a fascinating&nbsp;and historically important subject. The&nbsp;objective herein is to present an analysis&nbsp;of various battles fought around the world&nbsp;from medieval times to the present, and the&nbsp;archaeology recovered from investigations&nbsp;carried out by professionally sanctioned&nbsp;groups and hobbyists. The context here&nbsp;includes general battlefield recovered&nbsp;artifacts, military aviation crash sites, Second&nbsp;World War pill boxes, air raid shelters, POW&nbsp;Camps and other structures. There is also&nbsp;emphasis on Britain's ally in both world wars,&nbsp;the United States of America, examining the&nbsp;artifacts, wreckology, structures and dumping&nbsp;grounds left behind by the American military&nbsp;forces at the end of the Second World War&nbsp;both in the UK and Europe.Military Archaeology:&nbsp;How Detectorists and Major Finds Improve our Understanding of History is a&nbsp;valuable addition to the military and literary&nbsp;analysis of the archaeology of warfare from&nbsp;the Boudiccan uprising to the 2003 Invasion&nbsp;of Iraq.

Military Archaeology: How Detectorists and Major Finds Improve our Understanding of History

History

Evan-Hart, Julian

Military

Pen and Sword History

Hitler's Girls is not just another Hitler Youth history book. Concentrating purely on the role of German girls in Hitler’s Third Reich, we learn of their home lives, schooling, exploitation and eventual militarization from firsthand accounts of women who were indoctrinated into the Jung Madel and Bund Deutcscher Madel as young girls. From the prosperous beginnings of 1933 to the cataclysmic defeat of 1945, this insightful book examines in detail their specific roles as defined by the Nazi state. Few historical literary works have gone as deep to find the truth, the conscience and the regret, and in this sense Hitler's Girls is a unique work unlike any other so far published. Written in an attempt to provide a definitive voice for this unheard generation of German females, it will leave the reader to decide for themselves whether or not the girls were the obedient accessories to genocide, and it will lead many readers to question many aspects of what they have previously thought about the role of girls and young women in Hitler’s Third Reich. This is their story.

Hitler's Girls: Doves Amongst Eagles

Americas

Pen and Sword Military

In the wake of Germany’s unconditional surrender in May 1945 and Japan’s subsequent surrender later that July, across the world the Allied press proclaimed ‘Victory War is Over’! The truth for many Germans, particularly girls of the former Bund Deutscher Madel, was that a new war was just beginning. In Hitler's Shadow conveys the hopes, the horrors and the aftermath of the Second World War in the form of eye witness testimonies, diary entries and interviews. Through the eyes of the BDM girls, it recounts the struggle to rebuild lives destroyed by years of war, and how a country came to terms with terrible war crimes committed in its name. The result is powerful, sad, harrowing, humorous and shocking. In the realms of the study of female Hitler Youth organizations in Nazi Germany, In Hitler's Shadow has no equal.

In Hitler's Shadow: Post-War Germany and the Girls of the BDM

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

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