Chinese Cities - Sciences Po - OGLM 3050 - 59127 - S2 2025 Clément Renaud [hi@clementrenaud.com](mailto:hi@clementrenaud.com) (use left/right keyboard arrows to navigate) --- class: inverse, center, middle ## Week 1 # 城市 ## From The Ancient To The New #### 28 Jan 2025 --- class: inverse, center, middle ## Character of the week # 城市 [Purple Culture](https://www.purpleculture.net/dictionary-details/?word=城市) / [Hanziyuan](https://hanziyuan.net/) / [CUHK dic](https://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=城市) --- class: inverse # Some practical matters - [Fiche de présence](https://scolarite.sciences-po.fr/PROD/twbkwbis.P_GenMenu?name=homepage) - Assignments - Any questions? --- # About me Clément Renaud https://clementrenaud.com --- class: inverse background-color: red background-image: url(/chinese-cities/img/snake-cny.png) # Happy New Year :) ## 蛇年大吉 ! .inverse[[春运 (chunyun)](https://www.mot.gov.cn/fenxigongbao/yunlifenxi/202001/t20200109_3323840.html)] ## .inverse[[Live data](https://qianxi.baidu.com/#/)] --- class: inverse # About you First, who has been to China ? Please tell me in a few words: - Your name - What do you know about China ? (assess your level of knowledge / understanding) - Why pick this course? - Any special expectations about the course ? - Any question you would like me to cover ? --- # Introducing the course ### Program of the semester Check the [courses](/chinese-cities/courses) ### Assignment: Made in China - [read the assignment](/chinese-cities/assignement-made-in-china) - due week 6 - for next week: start thinking about an object --- class: center, middle, inverse # Cities in China ### From the Ancient to the New --- ## Disclaimer # Lost in translation > _la Chine est de plus en plus présente dans le monde, mais elle en est en même temps comme absente. Nous n’entendons pas sa voix._ > > _Chine trois fois muette_ - JF Billeter - Ed. Allia (2005) <br/> What we will try to avoid common pitfalls - (radical) empiricism - honesty - - avoid generalities - look at the details --- class: inverse background-image: url(/chinese-cities/img/china-cities-by-tier.png) # A spatial overview .footnote[ - [SCMP interactive](https://multimedia.scmp.com/2016/cities/) ] --- # An historical overview > Wu, Fulong. _Creating Chinese Urbanism: Urban Revolution and Governance Changes._ London: UCL Press, 2022\. Based on work of Chinese sociologist _Fei Xiaotong_ ### Successive types of urban residential areas: - traditional alleyway or courtyard neighbourhoods - ~1949: socialist era workplace apartment blocks - ~1978: peri-urban villages now physically incorporated within cities - today: suburban gated communities --- background-image: url(/chinese-cities/img/Yamen-Shaoxingfu.jpg) .inverse[ # 衙门 yamen ] .footnote.inverse[ - Chinese ancient city was an administrative unit - not really a market place - Ibn Battuba ] --- class: inverse background-image: url(/chinese-cities/img/回民胡同.jpg) # Beijing Hutong 胡同 .footnote[ - [Google Maps](https://maps.app.goo.gl/V6hiGeWNqBPr31169) - [Beijing city structure and evolution](https://www.bbsr.bund.de/BBSR/EN/publications/IzR/2008/8/Contents/DL_TangKunzmann.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=1) - [Siheyuan](https://www.politesi.polimi.it/retrieve/a81cb05d-4d2d-616b-e053-1605fe0a889a/booklet-Reviving%20Siheyuan%20and%20Hutong-0714.pdf) - [Conservation Plan](https://tibetheritagefund.org/media/download/hutong_study.pdf) - [Example of Renovation](https://inter-lab.co.uk/The-Evolution-and-Space-Patterns-of-Beijing-Hutongs) - [BJ Municipality Guidelines](https://zjw.beijing.gov.cn/bjjs/xxgk/zcwj2024/gfxwj40/xxyx/436464671/2024060611455397127.pdf) ] --- class: inverse background-image: url(/chinese-cities/img/shikumen.jpeg) # Shanghai Shikumen 石库门 .footnote[ - [shikumen overview](https://thethinkingarchitect.wordpress.com/2015/10/21/chinese-puzzle-shifting-spatial-and-social-patterns-in-shanghai-shikumen-architecture/) - [Historical map comparison](https://www.shanghai-map.net/shtdt/multi-images/index.html) - [Virtual Shanghai](https://www.virtualshanghai.net/) ] --- class: inverse background-image: url(/chinese-cities/img/Cao_Yang_Yi_Cun.jpeg) # The socialist work unit 单位 .footnote[ - [Danwei overview](https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/4/1338#) - [Caoyang New Village in Shanghai](https://en.planning.org.cn/nua/view?id=561) - [Graezer-Bideau REALTIME](https://realtimechina.net/files/REALTIME_Making-Digital-China_Chap02.pdf) ] --- class: inverse background-image: url(/chinese-cities/img/baishizhou.jpeg) # The Urban villages .footnote[ - [Baishizhou - Shenzhen Noted](https://shenzhennoted.com/2023/01/06/baishizhou-village-a-return-of-the-repressed-whats-in-a-name-mash-up/) - [Baishizhou - a photo journey](https://metropolismag.com/viewpoints/life-dying-urban-village-photographic-journey-baishizhou/) - [Shenzhen master plans - ISOCARP](https://www.isocarp.net/Data/case_studies/2162.pdf) - [slides - planning the SEZ](https://clementrenaud.com/talks/SCPo/#8) ] --- class: inverse background-image: url(/chinese-cities/img/山大乐水居小区.jpg) # Xiaoqu 小区 .footnote[ - [Housing model xiaoqu](https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Housing-Model-xiaoqu%3A-the-Expression-of-an-of-Wallenwein/d407349e1cdf348d23730d9f69fc1cea1a4ff845) - [Gates and walls](https://cityterritoryarchitecture.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40410-020-00122-x) - [Tiantongyuan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiantongyuan) - [Renovated danwei](https://www.fareast.mobi/en/bestpractices/liuyun/Liuyun-Xiaoqu-From-Housing-Estate-to-Mixed-Use) ] --- Traditional planning and typical housing in “Bei-Shang-Guang” cities Clusters / spatial organization of the city Danwei City of exacerbates differences Khoolas Infrastructures: some big projects Generation of plans : urban renewal, etc Wu Fulong preface (ancient / socialist / urban) 拆 Third front Making the plan : the daily work of an architect in the PRC Black coal thin ice ? [https://urbantransitions.global/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/China%E2%80%99s_New_Urbanisation_Opportunity_FINAL.pdf](https://urbantransitions.global/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/China%E2%80%99s_New_Urbanisation_Opportunity_FINAL.pdf)