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UF Reading Club 20150116: The book we discussed is 洪長泰《地標:北京的空間政治》, which is about spatial politics and how urban design would shape politics. As an extended reading, I recommend students to read Fei, Si-yen (2009) Negotiating Urban Space: Urbanization and Late Ming Nanjing, HUP: Mass. hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674035614 It tells the story of the political struggles during the Ming Dynasty on urban planning and design, such as the requirement of building city walls or not. urbanization [is] not an automatic by-product of commercial forces but as a process shaped by institutional frameworks and cultural trends in each dynasty. This contradiction [early Ming valorization of the rural and late Ming urbanization reality] went almost unremarked in court forums and discussions among elites, leaving its resolution to local initiatives and negotiations.
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 01:39:06 +0000

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