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The urban code of China [electronic resource] / Cheng shi Dieter Hassenpflug ; [translation from German into English, Mark Kammerbauer]. - Basel : Birkhauser, c2010. - 175 p. : ill. (chiefly col.)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-175).

How to read a city? -- Transformations of empty urban space -- Swinging lines and dancing dots -- Closed urban space -- Open urban space -- Urban fictions -- The compact city -- The Chinese city as a semiotic system -- Summary.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9783034612067 (electronic bk.)




City planning--China.
Cities and towns--China.
Urbanization--China.
Architecture--History--China--21st century.
National characteristics, Chinese.


Electronic books.

NA9265 / .H3713 2010

307.12160951