Courtyard housing and cultural sustainability: a study of housing renewal and redevelopment in Beijing and Suzhou

This research is an in-depth investigation of the renewed/new courtyard housing built in the Chinese cities of Beijing and Suzhou since the 1990s. The study explores the architectural, environmental, spatial, constructional, social, cultural, and behavioral aspects of the housing, to see whether it...

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Main Author: Zhang, Donia
Published: Oxford Brookes University 2012
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.579545