Overview
Investigates selected cities and shares first-hand reports on urban construction in China
Details cities’ growth and explores how cultural buildings have contributed to quality of life
Focuses on the theaters’ relationship with cities instead of going deeper into theatrical and technical design
Provides building plans and associated descriptions, making it unique and highly readable
Relevant to UN Sustainable Development Goal 11 --Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
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About this book
“In 'Grand Theater Urbanism', Professor Charlie Xue and his team document China’s current shift towards a culture of consumption and leisure, symbolized by the construction of multi-use Grand Theaters in major cities. 'Grand Theater Urbanism' reveals the unexpected variety and complexity of this contemporary cultural drive in a series of exemplary chapters with highly detailed, local, case studies.”
--Professor David Grahame Shane, Columbia University, New York
"Jane Jacobs likened city life to a performance. This book goes a stage further and analyses the actual performance spaces within cities in China. In doing so it makes a valuable connection between urban design and the cultural life in cities. This is an important and often forgotten dimension of urbanism and I heartily commend this book to readers.'"
--Professor Matthew Carmona, The Bartlett, University College London
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Grand Theater Urbanism
Book Subtitle: Chinese Cities in the 21st century
Editors: Charlie Qiuli Xue
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7868-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-7867-6Published: 16 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-7870-6Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-7868-3Published: 04 July 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXV, 277
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 190 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Architectural History and Theory, Urbanism