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The Taxonomy of Contemporary Chinese Cities (We Make Cities): A Sampling
Author(s) -
Jun Jiang,
Xiaoming Kuang
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.730
Subject(s) - china , urbanism , chinese city , taxonomy (biology) , identification (biology) , diversity (politics) , geography , regional science , sociology , archaeology , anthropology , ecology , architecture , biology
Abstract Rem Koolhaas famously highlighted the uniformity of Chinese cities with his identification of ‘the generic city’ in the Pearl River Delta in the 1990s. Here Jiang Jun , Editor‐in‐Chief of Urban China magazine, and Kuang Xiaoming highlight the ‘unified diversity’ and complexity of contemporary urbanism through his own system of classification. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.