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The mid‐20th‐century communist ideal was for cities that were ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Wang Jun, an editor at Outlook Weekly magazine and author of a best‐selling book on the planning of Beijing, describes how the ambition to accommodate public life in urban space is a relatively modern phenomenon that goes against the grain of a long tradition of landownership in China. Given this background, can the original notion of the ‘People's City’ ultimately survive the current wave of property privatisation? Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
The mid‐20th‐century communist ideal was for cities that were ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Wang Jun, an editor at Outlook Weekly magazine and author of a best‐selling book on the planning of Beijing, describes how the ambition to accommodate public life in urban space is a relatively modern phenomenon that goes against the grain of a long tradition of landownership in China. Given this background, can the original notion of the ‘People's City’ ultimately survive the current wave of property privatisation? Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
The ‘People’s City’
Jun, Wang (author)
Architectural Design ; 78 ; 44-47
2008-09-01
4 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Clarence Perry , Qin state , mini‐cities , FA Hayek The Road to Serfdom , Hutongs (narrow streets lined by traditional courtyard residences in Beijing during the Qing dynasty (1644‐1911) , neighbourhood unit concept , The Planned Economy , the Qing Ming Shang He Tu by Zhang Zeduan , cities were designed for cars , dayuan (‘gated community’) , Northern Song dynasty , privatisation , Town Planning and Road Traffic , Sir Thomas More’s Utopia of 1516 , danwei , transfer of land‐rights , Sir Herbert Alker Tripp , ‘People’s City’ ideal , ‘Planned Economy combined with Land Nationalisation belonging to the country=Social Welfare State’ , Atlas of Beijing in the Reign of Qianlong, AD 1750 , government’s motto was ‘to serve the people’ , 1944 reform of the tax system , Warring States , ) , private property rights , Hong Kong’s land policy
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