China's Urban Communities : Concepts, Contexts, and Well-Being.

Intro -- CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION -- Urbanization, Housing, and Community -- Contexts and Cases -- Beijing -- Shanghai -- Shenzhen -- Suzhou -- Organization -- CHAPTER 2. CONCEPTS OF COMMUNITY IN CHINA -- Early Chinese Communities -- Legalist and Confucian Influences -- Enclosed Communities in Medieval and Imperial China -- The Baojia System and Its Evolution -- Other Late Imperial Urban Communities -- Self-Governing Communities in Republican China -- The Danwei, Xiaoqu, and the People's Communes in Communist China -- Building Community in Contemporary China: The Shequ -- Communities for Political Ends -- CHAPTER 3. URBAN TYPES AND PROJECTS -- Housing and Community Types -- Parallel-Block Arrangements -- High-Rise Developments -- Garden City Neighborhoods -- Traditional Forms -- Projects in Contemporary Settings -- Where Next? -- CHAPTER 4. HEALTH AND WELL-BEING IN RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS -- Health and Well-being -- The Role of Place -- Well-being in China -- Exposures -- Connections -- Supports -- Conclusions -- CHAPTER 5. NEW PATHWAYS FORWARD -- Choices and Changes -- Housing Blocks on Megaplots -- Skyward Communities -- Seeking Unit Diversity -- Retrofitting Opportunities -- Ecological Gardening -- Tradition Returned -- Retention of Chinese Characteristics -- CHAPTER 6. CONCLUSION -- Communities, Places, and Well-being -- Community Futures -- APPENDICES -- METHODS APPENDIX -- Physical Surveys and Site Visits -- Interviews and Focus Groups -- Physical Representation -- Locational Analysis -- Modeling of Environmental Characteristics -- Air Pollution Monitoring -- Wind and Thermal Comfort Modeling -- Walkability -- NOTES -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS -- INDEX.

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