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The impact of city walls on urban expansion and structure of small historical cities: a Space Syntax analysis of Zhengding, China featured image

The impact of city walls on urban expansion and structure of small historical cities: a Space Syntax analysis of Zhengding, China

This study employs Space Syntax analysis to examine the urban expansion of Zhengding, a small historical city in northern China. Focusing on the impact of the city walls...

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Continuing to Write: Type-morphology, Latent Structures, and the Urban Project for the Chinese City featured image

Continuing to Write: Type-morphology, Latent Structures, and the Urban Project for the Chinese City

This paper discusses an approach to studying cities and architecture based on the Milan tradition,emphasising architectural design as a way of understanding urban …

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Open spaces as the key to the integration issue of historical site reconstruction projects: a cross‑cultural comparison featured image

Open spaces as the key to the integration issue of historical site reconstruction projects: a cross‑cultural comparison

The reconstruction of historical sites, while a controversial practice, has been common in both Germany and China to mitigate the cultural losses incurred during wars...

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Miniature public space planning: a case study of Hanyang District in Wuhan featured image

Miniature public space planning: a case study of Hanyang District in Wuhan

As small-scale public space containing daily life, miniature public space is an important tool of micro-regeneration. Firstly, this paper analyzes the concept...

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Large-scale public space construction based on grey and green infrastructure: from experience of Boston to contemporary practice featured image

Large-scale public space construction based on grey and green infrastructure: from experience of Boston to contemporary practice

Grey and green infrastructure are important resources for constructing public space in cities. ‘Emerald Necklace’, Charles River Park and ‘Big Dig’ are analyzed...

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The production of urban mini-type public space: another half mission of architectural design featured image

The production of urban mini-type public space: another half mission of architectural design

Responding to the relationship between architectural design and the production of urban mini-type public space,and from the perspective of urban design,this article...

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