{"id":214,"date":"2018-10-14T22:45:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T22:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/?page_id=214"},"modified":"2024-11-12T14:11:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T19:11:23","slug":"china","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/research\/china\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Urban Communities: Concepts, Contexts, and Well-being (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"h-china-s-urban-communities-concepts-contexts-and-well-being-2016\">China\u2019s Urban Communities: Concepts, Contexts, and Well-being (2016)<\/h1>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/research\/chinese-neighborhoods-and-health\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/55\/files\/2017\/09\/Chinas-Urban-Communities-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"China's Urban Communities Book Cover, a red tinted image of an urban area. \" class=\"wp-image-112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/files\/2017\/09\/Chinas-Urban-Communities-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/files\/2017\/09\/Chinas-Urban-Communities-796x1024.jpg 796w, https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/files\/2017\/09\/Chinas-Urban-Communities-768x988.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/files\/2017\/09\/Chinas-Urban-Communities-1194x1536.jpg 1194w, https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/files\/2017\/09\/Chinas-Urban-Communities-1592x2048.jpg 1592w, https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/files\/2017\/09\/Chinas-Urban-Communities-scaled.jpg 1990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong><\/strong>Chinese urbanization is one of the important phenomena of the last decades of the twentieth century and early decades of the current one. It has enormous implications for the economy, environment, and culture. What are these urban communities in China like particularly in the large cities where high urban densities have become the norm? Drawing on work in 25 fairly ordinary neighborhoods, developed and redeveloped over the past three decades,<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.degruyter.com\/view\/product\/462956\"><strong>China&#8217;s Urban Communities<\/strong><\/a>, by Peter Rowe, Ann Forsyth, and Har Ye Kan looks at the physical character of these areas through the lens of the well-being of their inhabitants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\" id=\"h-publications\"><b>Publications<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">2017&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; H.Y. Kan,&nbsp;A. Forsyth, and P. Rowe. Redesigning China\u2019s Superblock Neighborhoods: Policies, Opportunities, and Challenges.<i>&nbsp;Journal of Urban Design&nbsp;<\/i>22, 6: 257-277.<br><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">2016&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; P. Rowe,&nbsp;A. Forsyth, and H. Y. Kan.&nbsp;<i>China\u2019s Urban Communities: Concepts, Contexts, and Well-being<\/i>. 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