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Urbanization and Locality

Strengthening Identity and Sustainability by Site-Specific Planning and Design

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Editors:
  1. Fang Wang

    1. School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Peking University, Beijing, China

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  2. Martin Prominski

    1. Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany

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  • Collects a wealth of case studies and findings from both China and Germany, providing valuable experiences of urban development for other cities around the world

  • Discusses urban issues by departing from the limitations of traditional urban planning and the functional perspective of design

  • Integrates the views of experts from a broad range of fields, including architects, landscape designers, urban planners, geographers and environmental engineers

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. New Trends: Bridges Between People and Place in Urbanization Processes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Dynamics of Locality: Inspirations for Designing Large-Scale Urbanisation Projects

      • Martin Prominski
      Pages 3-26

    3. Measurement and Application of Urban Memory Related to Historic Areas in Beijing

      • Fang Wang, Wei Li, Yang Liu, Hongru Cai
      Pages 27-54

    4. New Urbanization and Land Use in China

      • Changchun Feng, Zhuyun Xiao, Haojing Shen, Lei Zhang
      Pages 55-73

    5. Urban Interplay

      • Annette Rudolph-Cleff
      Pages 75-94

    6. Mountainous Rural Urbanization: Space Integration of Industry and Village

      • Hao Long, Jiayang Li, Feng Lu, Dongzhu Chu
      Pages 95-109

    7. Rural Planning in the New Urbanization Process: The Case of Chengdu, China

      • Wei Zhao, Jiao Yang
      Pages 111-120

  3. New Strategies: Locality Preservation and Development in Urbanization Processes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. Integrative Design Computation for Local Resource Effectiveness in Architecture

      • Oliver David Krieg, Tobias Schwinn, Achim Menges
      Pages 123-143

    3. New Characteristics of Medical Architecture Development in China’s New-Type Urbanization

      • Hui Li
      Pages 145-166

    4. Study of Vernacular Dwellings and Settlement Renewal

      • Xiaopeng Fan, Zhennan Wang
      Pages 167-178

    5. Preservation and Tourism-Oriented Use of Cultural Heritage Streets: Case Study of Lhasa’s Barkhor Street

      • Xia Li, Yongzhi Xu
      Pages 179-185

    6. Sustainable Tourism-Oriented Conservation and Improvement of Historical Villages in the Urbanization Process: A Case Study of Nan’anyang Village, Shanxi Province, China

      • Ye-Feng Xie, Lu Li, Yan-Dan Guo, Xu-Peng Sun, Yu-Jun Zhang
      Pages 187-203

    7. The Disappearing Historical Hutongs: Key Issues in Preserving Locality in Old Beijing

      • Pengjun Zhao
      Pages 205-214

    8. Restructuring the Urban Landscape: A “Critical Reconstruction” of Permanent Structures in Historic Cultural and Urban Landscapes

      • Sören Schöbel
      Pages 215-225

  4. New Explorations: Site-Specific Planning and Design in the Context of Urbanization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227
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    2. Providing Urban Ecosystem Services for Human Well-Being: A Comparison of Exemplary Institutional Arrangements in China and Germany

      • Martin Welp, Natalie Ward, Siegmund Missall, Abdulla Abliz, Ümüt Halik
      Pages 229-247

    3. Research on IMGESB in Sustainable Building Design Process

      • Dongzhu Chu, Shuxiang Wei
      Pages 249-266

    4. Locality as Co-production of Common Ground: Urban Interventions by the Academy of a New Gropiusstadt

      • Jörg Stollmann
      Pages 267-285
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About this book

Based on a discussion of conflicts in the urbanization process, this book provides theoretical and practical solutions for the preservation and development of urban localities. On the basis of informative case studies, it reveals the similarities and unique aspects of urbanization in Germany and China. The process of urban growth and the future trend of locality and urbanization are also examined. The book gathers contributions from architects, landscape designers, environmental engineers, urban planners and geographers, who analyze urban issues from their individual perspectives and provide methods for preserving and developing urban localities. As such, it expresses responses to urban development trends against the backdrop of sustainability in the 21st century.


Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Peking University, Beijing, China

    Fang Wang

  • Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Martin Prominski

About the editors

Ms. WANG Fang (1973-) is Associate Professor in College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Peking University and a registered urban planner. After receiving a Ph.D. in Architectural Design and Theory from Tsinghua University, WANG completed her postdoctoral research in geography, with a concentration in urban planning, at Peking University. From 2011 to 2012 Dr. WANG was a visiting scholar at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She is a member of the Chinese Academy of City Planning, Chinese Geographical Society, and Chinese Architectural Society. Her research introduces geographical philosophy, methods and techniques into the traditionally engineering-dominated fields of urban planning and architectural design. Her focus is also known as “geographical planning and design”--research on the influence of geography upon urban planning and design and, reflexively, urban planning and design responses to geography. Her research field bases on the protection and renewal of cultural landscape and historical district. Dr. WANG has published over 60 articles and 2 books and has translated a total of 8 books. She has piloted a China Natural Science Foundation project (NSFC, No. 51078003) and 6 other projects of provincial and ministry-level funding.


Mr. Martin Prominski (1967-) is Full Professor for “Designing urban landscapes” at Leibniz University Hanover since 2009. He studied landscape planning at Technical University of Berlin and received a Master in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, with the support of a DAAD scholarship. He has a PhD from TU Berlin, published in 2004 as “LandschaftEntwerfen”. From 2003-2008 he was assistant professor in “Theory of contemporary landscape architecture” at Leibniz University Hanover. He co-founded the Journal of Landscape Architecture (JoLA) in 2006 and was an editor for it until 2010. He is a member of the Chamber of Architects, the German Academy for Urban Design and Land Use Planning or the STUDIO URBANE LANDSCHAFTEN, an interdisciplinary platform on research, practice and teaching on urban landscapes. He has published three books and more than 45 articles in books and journals. He has piloted a German Research Foundation project (DFG, No.PR 920/2-1), two projects for the German Federal Foundation for the Environment (DBU), one project for the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony and co-piloted two projects for the European Union. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Urbanization and Locality

  • Book Subtitle: Strengthening Identity and Sustainability by Site-Specific Planning and Design

  • Editors: Fang Wang, Martin Prominski

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48494-4

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-48492-0Published: 03 November 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52643-9Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-48494-4Published: 24 October 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 384

  • Topics: Environmental Economics, Economic Growth, Urbanism

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