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Foshan China Workshop

Graduate · Historical course

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.
    Listed reading
  • 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.
    Listed reading
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  • Fingerhuth, Carl, and Ernst Joos. The Kunming Project: Urban Development in China: a Dialogue . Boston, MA: Birkhauser, 2002. ISBN: 3764367423.
    Listed reading
  • Grava, Sigurd. Urban Transportation Systems: Choices for Communities . New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2003. ISBN: 0071384170.
    Listed reading
  • Lion, Satish McKay. Transit Oriented Development Strategy: Guangzhou Case Study . Thesis (S.M.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2003.
    Listed reading
  • Midgley, P. Urban Transport in Asia: An Operational Agenda for the 1990s . Washington, DC: World Bank, 1994. ISBN: 0821326244.
    Listed reading
  • 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.
    Listed reading
  • Transit Cooperative Research Program. The Role of Transit in Creating Livable Metropolitan Communities , TCRP Report 22. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1997. ISBN: 0309060575.
    Listed reading
  • Tan, Lily. Singapore’s 100 Historic Places . Singapore: Archipelago Press, 2004. ISBN: 9814068233.
    Listed reading
  • Yuen, Belinda. Planning Singapore: From Plan to Implementation . Singapore: Singapore Institute of Planners, 1998. ISBN: 9810405731.
    Listed reading
  • France, R. L. Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design . Boca Raton, FL: Lewis Publishers, 2002. ISBN: 1566705622.
    Listed reading
  • Schueler, T. R., H. K. Holland, and Center for Watershed Protection. The Practice of Watershed Protection . Ellicott City, MD: Center for Watershed Protection, 2000.
    Listed reading
  • Junhua, Lu, Peter G. Rowe, and Zhang Jie, eds. Modern Urban Housing in China 1840-2000 . New York, NY: Prestel, 2001. ISBN: 3791325078.
    Listed reading
  • 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.
    Listed reading
  • ———. 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.
    Listed reading
  • ———. 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.
    Listed reading
  • Sasaki Associates. Sasaki Associates . Hong Kong: Well Century International Ltd., 2004.
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  • Watson, Donald, Alan Plattus, and Robert G. Shibley, eds. Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design . New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2003. ISBN: 007068507X.
    Listed reading
Spring 2004

Topics

  • Introduction
  • Initial Site Visit to Foshan
  • Mid-term Trip to Foshan
  • Final Trip to Present Work
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