The Socio-spatial Design of Community and Governance: Interdisciplinary Urban Design in China

This book proposes a new interdisciplinary understanding of urban design in China based on a study of the transformative effects of socio—spatial design and planning on communities and their governance. This is framed by an examination of the social projects, spaces, and realities that have shaped three contexts critical to the understanding of urban design problems in China: the histories of “collective forms” and “collective spaces”, such as that of the urban danwei (work—unit), which inf...