Traditional architectural forms in market oriented Chinese cities: Place for localities or symbol of culture?

Chen, Fei

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2010.11.012

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“…Nevertheless, it should be borne in mind that, as noted elsewhere in this issue, whatever China's success in reducing its energy intensity through domestic retrofit, the embodied energy lost in its vast reconstruction programme which is largely needed to accommodate rapid urbanisation (Chen 2011), is likely to outweigh all gains. Thus on the domestic as well as the international scale, considerations of social justice -providing more of the population with the opportunity of urban dwelling with attendant higher incomes -continue to outweigh those of climate justice.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate justice and retrofitting for energy efficiency

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Davoudi

2014

disP - The Planning Review

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Although sharing some common origins with environmental justice, in recent years, climate justice has emerged as a separate domain, one that entails both greater uncertainties and greater temporal and spatial distance between its causes in human activities and climatic shifts or extreme events. This article situates climate justice in relation to environmental justice and wider justice debates. It reflects on the multi-scalarity of climate justice and its bi-dimensional character (the justice of adaptation and mitigation). It then explores three different variants of distributive justice -welfare, equity and equality distribution -through examples from both international climate negotiations and UK and China national energy efficiency retrofit policy. The article aims to illustrate the kinds of differences and problems that originate with three very different ways of interpreting the meaning of a just distribution of the benefits and burdens related to tackling human-origin climate change, and to show how these are in many cases being pitched against considerations of social justice.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Climate justice and retrofitting for energy efficiency

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Davoudi

2014

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“…In such cases, developers have dominative power over the development. This has also happened in areas needing urgent regeneration, as evidenced in the redevelopment of the Taipingqiao area in Shanghai (Chen 2011). Furthermore, certain important decision-making is often dominated by political will (Leaf and Hou 2006;Chen and Thwaites 2013).…”

Section: Design Principles and Design Elements Of China's Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

The design dimension of China's planning system: urban design for development control

Chen¹

2015

International Planning Studies

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This paper investigates the design dimension of China's legal planning framework. It aims to identify the design principles which have been followed in practice, those design elements which have been considered by designers and planners as part of development control, and the extent to which urban design outcomes have been adopted in specific legal plans. It examines 14 urban design cases from Nanjing which were produced in conjunction with the relevant legal plans between 2009 and 2013. The study suggests that in China, urban design has been facing a number of challenges, including limited coverage of design elements, inconsistencies in the design principles followed, an incompatibility between design outcomes and legal plans, and an underestimation of the role of urban design in the delivery process of development control. Nevertheless, recent years have seen a rise in the standard of urban design practice in the country, and an emerging recognition of the role of urban design in local planning policies.

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“…Several attempts at renewing the traditional fabric with a reinterpreted hutong received mixed reviews, but were in any event abandoned by 2005 (Chen, 2011), in favour of contemporary forms. An early experiment in regenerating the hutong at higher density was carried out in the Ju'er project (Wu, 1999).…”

Section: Literature On the Hutong And Siheyuanmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, only the first two phases were completed while the rest of the project was shelved. In the meantime, the original residents, already reduced to 30% of the pre-redevelopment population, sold their units and moved out (Chen, 2011). The 2002 Conservation Plan changed the approach to one of architectural conservation in designated areas and demolition elsewhere.…”

Section: Literature On the Hutong And Siheyuanmentioning

confidence: 99%