The book describes the challenges, opportunities, and necessities of
the urban regeneration in the urban policy and city making practice in
China.
Through six chapters, it systematically categorizes the related projects
of Tianhua Group into six approaches: Regenerating Local Community,
Reprogramming Industrial Structures, Recreating Urban Frontage,
Reinventing Urban Artifact, Retrofitting Open Space, and Tectonics of
Urban Regeneration.
By using case methods, this publication features how different
regeneration projects are completed from sketch to reality. It revisits
this classical topic of urban regeneration through the perspective of
careful renovation and critical reconstruction in the context of
China--with and as a parallel scheme of the country's major trend in
urbanization, urban expansion.