published_or_final_version / Housing Management / Master / Master of Housing Management

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Architecture

In China, huge population and limited arable land resources constitute one of the basic contradictions in urban mass housing design. As a stereotype, medium-rise apartment buildings were constructed to attain high densities all over the country during the 1980s. The extensive use of the housing typologies caused problems in many aspects. This reflects the poverty of architectural solutions and the consequences of the socio-economic systems of the country. / Focusing on the aspects of single building design and site planning, this thesis analyses the methods to reach high building densities in medium-rise mass housing design in Beijing from 1979 to 1990. The study is conducted through the review of the socio-economic issues and the introduction of mass housing design of the country. It intends to see the interrelationships between ways to attain high building densities and the socio-economic backgrounds. / The research indicates that methods to reach high building densities are many. Ways used in Beijing during 1980s were based on the socio-economic system at the time being. These ways are not appropriate in terms of the unique urban context of the city and could be thus replaced by others.

As cities have evolved over history as a function of human behaviour, they represent the rich social laboratories of a particular civilization. Because of its ancient roots and its particular historical evolution, the urban tradition in China is appreciatively unique, but yet as China is rapidly thrust into modernity and post-modernity of global interdependence most evident in its urban centres, one can discern clearly the serious cultural disparities that threaten the social fabric of the Chinese people. It is through the massive development of its major metropolises that China is embarking on a disturbing trend of false development, a top-down process which imposes disparate images and illusory expectations on a politically-fatigued society. As the centrepiece of China's entrance onto the international stage, the city of Shanghai represents both the vision of Chinas future, but perhaps also its social demise.

Bibliographic note Ertürk, Saadet (2019). The Rise of China and its Implications for Western Development Cooperation Policy. Master Thesis. Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Political Studies, Supervisors: Dr. Michal Parízek & Dr. Sebastian Ziaja. Abstract Recently new donors are beginning to challenge the international aid architecture of traditional Western donors by providing huge amounts of foreign aid to Sub-Sahara African (SSA) countries without political conditions attached, thereby undermining the bargaining power and influence of OECD DAC donors. Especially Chinas new role as aid donor causes a lot of scepticism among researchers. This master thesis investigates whether OECD DAC donors changed their aid allocation policies and patterns in response to rising Chinese foreign aid activities in SSA countries. So far, the literature investigating the relationship between foreign aid provided by traditional Western donors and aid by the Chinese government has been limited mostly due to the lack of accurate data on Chinese foreign aid. This study makes use of a new dataset on Chinese foreign aid flows in order to examine the response of OECD DAC donors to Chinese foreign aid activities in SSA between 2000 to 2014. It finds that contrary to current assumptions OECD DAC donors do...

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1988. / Includes bibliographical references. / If one were to seek a unifying factor in this relatively short period of a modern Chinese tradition, it might be surprising to find that amidst the jolts of passing out of a feudal era into the twentieth century, the ancient principles of yin and yang still provide the jagged thread with which to attach the modern Chinese culture to the ancient one. This integration of opposing forces causes the pendulum to swing in any cross section of both material and nonmaterial form. Although this idiosyncratic leitmotiv is often to be found locked in a state of contradiction (the antithesis), the principles nevertheless provide a flexible structure and the leeway for change; as Chinese history has proven that rigidity most often results in decline and defeat. Moreover, it has provided a base for the growth of knowledge, readily adapting to the Marxist and Maoist methodology of dialectical materialism in this modern era. / by Karen K. Marcus. / M.S.

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Leung Yat Wai Carol. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2000-01, design report." / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 88). / Preface --- p.1 / Chapter A. --- Concept / Chapter 1 --- Genesis / Chapter 1.1 --- Synopsis --- p.2 / Chapter 1.2 --- Gender --- p.3-4 / Chapter 1.3 --- "Gender, Architecture Relationship" --- p.5-8 / Chapter 1.4 --- Crossing Gender - Queer Concept --- p.9-13 / Chapter 1.5 --- "Queer, Architecture Relationship" --- p.14-16 / Chapter 2 --- Concept / Chapter 2.1 --- Architectural Intention --- p.17 / Chapter 2.2 --- Of Boundaries --- p.18 / Chapter 2.3 --- Architectural Strategies --- p.19 / Chapter 2.3a --- Tangible - of Form --- p.20 / Chapter 2.3b --- Intangible - of Psychology --- p.21 / Chapter B. --- Program / Chapter 1 --- From Concept to Program --- p.22-23 / Chapter 2 --- Program Studies --- p.24-31 / Chapter 3 --- Program --- p.32-35 / Chapter 4 --- Precedent Studies --- p.36 / Chapter 4.1 --- Youth Detention Centre --- p.37-39 / Chapter 4.2 --- Discotheque --- p.40-41 / Chapter 4.3 --- Stanley Prison Visit --- p.42 / Chapter C. --- Site / Chapter 1 --- Site Studies --- p.43-50 / Chapter 2 --- Site Strategies --- p.51 / Chapter D. --- Design Development / Chapter 1 --- Phase One - the Linear and the Object --- p.52-55 / Chapter 2 --- Phase Two - the Wrapping --- p.56-58 / Chapter 3 --- Phase Three - the Following of Site Boundary --- p.59-61 / Chapter 4 --- Phase Four - the oval --- p.62-64 / Chapter 5 --- Final Design --- p.65-69 / Evaluation --- p.70 / Epilogue --- p.71 / Appendix --- p.72-87 / Bibliography --- p.88

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Landscape Architecture