Vertical Urbanism
Designing Compact Cities in China
Vertical Urbanism
Designing Compact Cities in China
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Description
Using Chinese cities as laboratories of investigation, this book explores the design, ecological, and socio-cultural dimensions of building compact cities. It will provide an insight into the practical challenges and theoretical debates surrounding "compact city" and "vertical urbanism" in the global context.
Zhongjie Lin is Director of the Master of Urban Design Program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and cofounder of Futurepolis, a cross-disciplinary design practice. A 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, he studies modern architectural avant-garde movements, theory and practice of urban design, and contemporary architecture and urbanism in East Asia, and has published extensively in these areas.
José L.S. Gámez is an Associate Professor of Architecture and the Associate Director of the School of Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research explores the role of community-engaged scholarship in public interest design, the roles of culture and identity in architecture and urbanism, and critical art and design practices.