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This book combines theory and practice with typical cases study. Pictures and texts are listed in each chapter for easier understanding. It is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students majoring in urban and rural planning, architecture, and landscape architecture in colleges and universities. It is used as a reference material for personnel engaged in rural planning, design, construction and management, and for the training and learning of rural cadres. Meanwhile, it is also used as a reference for general audience who interested in rural planning and construction. This book hopefully promotes the academic exchange and discussion of the rebirth of mountainous historical and cultural villages in eastern China, encouraging the further localized practice and more attention to historical and cultural villages.
List of contents
Introduction: Ways for Rebirth of "Historical and Cultural Villages".- Historical Inevitability of the Rebirth of Historical and Cultural Villages in China.- Holistic Spatial Characteristics of Historical and Cultural Villages.- Current Development Situation of Wuyantou Village, Ningxi Town, Huangyan District, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province.
About the author
Prof. Dr. Guiqing Yang is Principal Investigator of the "Urban and Rural Development and Rural Planning" research team and the former Dean of the Department of Urban Planning in Tongji University. He was educated at Tongji University, Harvard University, and received his Ph.D. from Tongji University in 2003. The majority of his research focus on Chinese Urbanization, urban and rural residential planning and design, urban and rural community planning, urban sociology, etc. His publications mainly include
Rural Settlements- Guidelines of Village Features in Huangyan (2020), Wuyan Old Village- Rebirth of Historical Cultural Village in Huangyan (2016),
Huangyan Exploration- Planning & Construction for Beautiful Countryside (2015), Rural Community- Planning Standrad & Design Studies (as Chief Editor, 2012),
Rural China- report on Chinese rural settlements 2010 (as Chief Editor, 2011), Urban Social Psychology (as Chief Editor, 2000), and over 100 journal articles.
