Shipai Village

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii
4. CONTRIBUTORS ix
5. INTRODUCTION
6. Villages in the City: A Guide to China’s Informal Settlements 1
7. ESSAYS
8. The City in between the Villages 9
9. The Beginning of the End: Planning the Destruction of Guangzhou’s Urban Villages 19
10. City-in-the-Village: Huanggang and China’s Urban Renewal 29
11. A Village by the Special Economic Zone: The Dafen Paradigm of China’s Urbanization 42
12. Village-in-the-City as a Sustainable Form of Social Housing Communities for China: A Tale of Four Villages in Shenzhen 47
13. URBANIZATION
14. The Big Picture: Visualizing Urban Villages 63
15. Village Portraits 64
16. Rapid Urbanization and the Rise and Decline of Urban Villages 67
17. Uneven Urbanization in the Pearl River Delta 68
18. SHENZHEN
19. Xiasha Village 70
20. Dafen Village 80
21. Gangxia Village 90
22. POLITICS
23. Battle of the Smartest: Shenzhen Municipal Government vs. Shenzhen Urban Villagers 100
24. Limited Rights of Floating Population 103
25. DONGGUAN
26. Jiekou Village 104
27. Tianjia Village 114
28. URBAN DESIGN
29. One Line Skies: Shipai Village 124
30. GUANGZHOU
31. Shipai Village 126
32. Wanshengtang Village 136
33. Sanyuanli Village 146
34. ARCHITECTURE
35. Flexible Use of Village Buildings 156
36. FOSHAN
37. Bitang Village 158
38. Hedang Village 168
39. INTERIOR DESIGN
40. How Do the Villagers Cut Up the Housing Units? 178
41. ZHUHAI
42. Poshi Village 180
43. Zuowu Village 190
44. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 202
45. CREDITS 203