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Cultural sustainability is a very important aspect of the overall sustainability framework and is regarded as the 'fourth pillar' alongside the other three: environmental, economic, and social sustainability. However, the concept is neither fully explored, nor widely accepted or recognized. This book elicits the interplay of 'nature-culture-architecture' and theorizes the concept of 'cultural sustainability' and 'culturally sustainable architecture.' It identifies four key themes in Chinese philosophy: Harmony with Heaven, Harmony with Earth, Harmony with Humans, and Harmony with Self , along with Greek philosopher Aristotle's physics: form, space, matter, and time, it sets them as criteria to evaluate the renewed and new courtyard housing projects constructed in China since the 1990s.Using an innovative architectural and social science approach, this book examines the political, economic, social, and spatial factors that affect cultural sustainability. Supported by a multiplicity of data including: field surveys, interviews with residents, architects, and planners, time diaries, drawings, photos, planning documents, observation notes, and real estate brochures, the book proposes n

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Author

Donia Zhang

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing Company

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781409405030

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, Political Science