Free Download Qinyi Zhang, "The Elemental Metropolis: The Past and Future of the Extended Urbanity in the Yangtze River Delta, China "
English | ISBN: 3031364082 | 2023 | 249 pages | PDF | 17 MB
This book provides a multi-scale reading of the spatial "elements" in which the extensive urbanity in Yangtze River Delta is constructed, and from there an imagination of a new paradigm of urbanization.

The urbanization in Yangtze River Delta today is in need of a new interpretation and paradigm. The delta is a territory with city cores but it also has vast dispersed urbanization where the agricultural and non-agricultural activities and spaces are mixed and interlinked, a desakota (McGee, 1991). This book attempts to answer a basic question: what is the desakota in the Yangtze River Delta made of?
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