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Village in the City looks at how villages become engulfed in urban centers as the population and geographic parameters of cities grow. Offering specifically a comparative analysis of how this process occurs throughout Asia, but with special attention to Chinese cities, this volume offers case studies focusing on Beijing, Guangzhou, New Delhi, and Hanoi. Academics and practicing architects from Europe and Asia contribute essays that look at the dynamics of inclusion/exclusion in Chinese urbanism, migrant residents in urban centers, and urban renewal. Far-ranging and rigorous, these original essays are supplements with over one hundred images.  

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[Village in the City] asks what might be learned from the village-in-the-city phenomenon. It is a powerful and poignant question. . . . The authors look, in different ways, at a number of these villages across China, providing an insightful . . . exposition of a unique and intriguing phenomenon. . . . Recommended. -- (04/24/2015)

[Village in the City] asks what might be learned from the village-in-the-city phenomenon. It is a powerful and poignant question. . . . The authors look, in different ways, at a number of these villages across China, providing an insightful . . . exposition of a unique and intriguing phenomenon. . . . Recommended. -- Choice (4/24/2015 12:00:00 AM)

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Kelly Shannon is a professor at the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape, Oslo School of Architecture and Design (Norway). Bruno De Meulder is professor for urbanism at the University of Leuven (Belgium). Yanliu Lin works as a postdoc researcher at the department of geography at University of Utrecht (Netherlands). Their Research Group Urbanism and Architecture at the University of Leuven seeks innovative interplays of landscape, infrastructure and urbanisation that respond to contemporary challenges, while critically evaluating the performance and capacity of existing contexts.

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