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This multidisciplinary volume, the first of its kind, presents an account of China's contemporary transformation via one of its most important yet overlooked cities: Shenzhen, located just north of Hong Kong. In recent decades, Shenzhen has transformed from an experimental site for economic reform into a dominant city at the crossroads of the global economy. The first of China's special economic zones, Shenzhen is today a UNESCO City of Design and the hub of China's emerging technology industries. Bringing China studies into dialogue with urban studies, the contributors explore how the post-Mao Chinese appropriation of capitalist logic led to a dramatic remodeling of the Chinese city and collective life in China today. These essays show how urban villages and informal institutions enabled social transformation through cases of public health, labor, architecture, gender, politics, education, and more. Offering scholars and general readers alike an unprecedented look at one of the world's most dynamic metropolises, this collective history uses the urban case study to explore critical problems and possibilities relevant for modern-day China and beyond.

Urban renewal --- Free ports and zones --- Municipal government --- Shenzhen Shi (China) --- Shenzhen Jingji Tequ (Shenzhen Shi, China) --- China. --- Post-socialism. --- Shenzhen. --- space. --- urban planning. --- urban villages.

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This book is a compilation of 10 recently published academic articles addressing sustainable residential landscape design and planning across geographies, scales, and perspectives: from American rain garden design to South Korean urban forestry; from Mexican community open space design to Australian neighborhood park planning; and from Chinese urban design to Bolivian land-use change. This volume brings together authors from a growing community of landscape sustainability scholars of landscape architecture and architecture; planning and construction; ecology and horticulture; agricultural and environmental sciences; and health, exercise, and nutrition. In summary, these papers address facets of a fundamental challenge for the 21st century: the design and planning of sustainable and resilient human settlements.

carbon reduction --- intergenerational engagement --- tree planting structure --- urban tree --- All-Area Integrated Development --- residential landscapes --- small towns --- rural landscape architecture --- urban commons --- demolition/relocation-oriented market model (D/RMM) --- parks --- youth at risk --- spatial theory --- wellbeing --- building energy saving --- Guatemala --- land use change --- new rural construction model (NRCM) --- substrate --- phosphorus --- green infrastructure --- Origin Farmer Indigenous Territory --- dwellings --- residential sustainability --- residential neighborhood parks --- sustainable livelihoods --- sustainability --- ecological priority --- CPTED --- ecological service --- circular economy --- action research --- urban villages transformation --- cohousing --- public space recovery --- Bolivian Amazon --- design model --- social sustainability --- community service learning --- rural revitalization --- China --- coordinated development of rural communities & --- shared resources --- rain gardens --- tactical urbanism --- climate sensitive design --- prevention of gender-based violence --- polyculture --- comfort --- Indigenous versus non-indigenous land-use --- bioretention --- monoculture --- landscape performance evaluation --- low impact development --- governance --- territory