Urban Regeneration: Critical Projects

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The book describes the challenges, opportunities, and necessities of the urban regeneration in the urban policy and city making practice in China.

Through six chapters, it systematically categorizes the related projects of Tianhua Group into six approaches: Regenerating Local Community, Reprogramming Industrial Structures, Recreating Urban Frontage, Reinventing Urban Artifact, Retrofitting Open Space, and Tectonics of Urban Regeneration.

By using case methods, this publication features how different regeneration projects are completed from sketch to reality. It revisits this classical topic of urban regeneration through the perspective of careful renovation and critical reconstruction in the context of Chinawith and as a parallel scheme of the countrys major trend in urbanization, urban expansion.

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Xiangming Huang is the board member and chief architect of Tianhua Group, one of the largest design-construction integrated service corporations in China with international contracting qualifications. His major works include Biyun Community, Biyun Garden, Huilong New City, Oak Bay, Pujiang New Town, Vanke Wonderland, Rainbow City, and Cultural and Sports Center of Suzhou New District. Dingliang Yang is an instructor of urban design at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He is the founding partner of VARI Design.