Contemporary Urban Design Thoughts in China

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 E.g.: Broudehoux, A. M. (2004): The Making and Selling of Post-Mao Beijing. New York: Routledge.Campanella, T. J. (2008): The Concrete Dragon, China’s Urban Revolution and what it means for the World. Princeton Architectural Press.Esherick, J. W. (ed.) (1999): Remaking the Chinese City. Modernity and National Identity 1900–1950. Honolulu: Hawaii University Press.Fingerhuth, C.; Joos, E. (eds.) (2002): The Kunming Project: Urban Development in China: A Dialogue. Basel: Birkhäuser.Friedmann, J. (2005): China’s Urban Transition. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.Wu, F. (2022): Creating Chinese Urbanism. Urban Revolution and Government Changes. London: UCL Press.Wu, F. (2015): Planning for Growth. Urban and Regional Planning in China. London: Routledge.2 See also the recently published book on the urban history of China:Lincoln, T. (2021): An Urban History of China. Cambridge: University Press.3 Saarinen, E. (1943): The City: Its Growth, Its Decay, Its Future. New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation.4 Soviet city planning concepts were partly rooted in the planning activities of German planners in the Soviet Union in the 1930s (such as Ernst May, Walter Gropius, Fred Forbát and Rudolf Wolters).5 Another comprehensive bibliography compiled by Yeh, A. G. O. (1999): Bibliography on Socioeconomic Development and Urban Development In China. Hong Kong: Centre of Urban Planning and Environmental Management, University of Hong Kong.6 No list is final: Books translated into Chinese and missing from the list include, for example: Frick, D. (2006/2015): Theorie des Städtebaus. (Translated by Yi Xin).Hassenpflug, D. (2010): The Urban Code of China. Basel: Birkhäuser.Reicher, C.; Kunzmann, K. R.; Polívka, J.; Roost, F.; Wegener, M. (2011): Schichten einer Region: Kartenstücke zur räumlichen Struktur des Ruhrgebiets. Beijing: China Architecture & Building Press.Trieb, M. (1974/2021): Stadtgestaltung: Theorie und Praxis. In Chinese, Beijing: China Architecture & Building Press. (Translation: Yajin Zhang).However, books written by Manuel Castells, John Friedmann, Willem Salet, Louis Albrechts, Gerd Albers, François Ascher, Françoise Choay, Michael Batty, Rem Koolhaas, Tridib Banerjee, or Patsy Healey seem to still be on the waiting list for translations.