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Urban Villages
Author(s) -
Yan Meng
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.739
Subject(s) - vitality , urban village , urban design , china , principal (computer security) , intervention (counseling) , architecture , urban planning , urban community , civil engineering , architectural engineering , sociology , political science , engineering , geography , law , archaeology , socioeconomics , computer science , psychology , computer security , philosophy , theology , psychiatry
Is the Village in the City (ViC) potentially an urban scar or a vibrant community? Meng Yan , principal of urban design think tank and architectural firm URBANUS, advocates a design approach to the urban village phenomena that recognises the vitality of the social conditions they provide and how they might, with some intervention from designers, prove a ready‐made solution to China's housing problem. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.