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Foshan China Workshop
Spring 2005 · Gaoming Studio - China
Topics
- 10 Day Site Visit to Gaoming, China; Present Initial Impressions and Ideas, Gather Feedback
- Best Practices Research
- 5 Day Site Visit to Gaoming
- Revise Draft Scenarios
- Presentation
Readings
- Cervero, R. “Creating a Linear City with a Surface Metro: The Story of Curitiba, Brazil.” Working Paper 643. Berkeley, CA: University of California at Berkeley, Institute of Urban and Regional Development, National Transit Access Center, 1995.
- Corbett, Judy, and Paul Zylofsky, eds. Building Livable Communities: A Policymaker’s Guide to Transit-oriented Development . Sacramento, CA: The Center for Livable Communities, 1999.
- Fingerhuth, Carl, and Ernst Joos. The Kunming Project: Urban Development in China: a Dialogue . Boston, MA: Birkhauser, 2002. ISBN: 3764367423.
- Grava, Sigurd. Urban Transportation Systems: Choices for Communities . New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2003. ISBN: 0071384170.
- Lion, Satish McKay. Transit Oriented Development Strategy: Guangzhou Case Study . Thesis (S.M.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2003.
- Midgley, P. Urban Transport in Asia: An Operational Agenda for the 1990s . Washington, DC: World Bank, 1994. ISBN: 0821326244.
- Serra, M. V. Urban Land Markets and Urban Land Development: An Examination of Three Brazilian Cities: Brasília, Curitiba and Recife . Berkeley, CA: University of California at Berkeley, 2004.
- Transit Cooperative Research Program. The Role of Transit in Creating Livable Metropolitan Communities , TCRP Report 22. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1997. ISBN: 0309060575.
- Tan, Lily. Singapore’s 100 Historic Places . Singapore: Archipelago Press, 2004. ISBN: 9814068233.
- Yuen, Belinda. Planning Singapore: From Plan to Implementation . Singapore: Singapore Institute of Planners, 1998. ISBN: 9810405731.
- France, R. L. Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design . Boca Raton, FL: Lewis Publishers, 2002. ISBN: 1566705622.
- Schueler, T. R., H. K. Holland, and Center for Watershed Protection. The Practice of Watershed Protection . Ellicott City, MD: Center for Watershed Protection, 2000.
- Junhua, Lu, Peter G. Rowe, and Zhang Jie, eds. Modern Urban Housing in China 1840-2000 . New York, NY: Prestel, 2001. ISBN: 3791325078.
- Chen, Ke. Housing in the Special Economic Zones: A Preliminary Study of Housing Provision and Conditions in Shenzhen . Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong: Department of Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997. ISBN: 9628272209.
- ———. Urban Housing in China: An Introductory Study of “Year 2000 Urban and Rural Xiaokang Housing Scientific and Technological Industrial Project” . Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong: Department of Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997. ISBN: 9628272101.
- ———. Affordable Housing in China: A Study of Pilot Housing Estates in Three Cities . Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong: Department of Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997. ISBN: 9628272306.
- Sasaki Associates. Sasaki Associates . Hong Kong: Well Century International Ltd., 2004.
- Watson, Donald, Alan Plattus, and Robert G. Shibley, eds. Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design . New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2003. ISBN: 007068507X.
Spring 2004
Topics
- Introduction
- Initial Site Visit to Foshan
- Mid-term Trip to Foshan
- Final Trip to Present Work
Sources
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- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Spring 2005
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