China's cosmetic cities: Urban fever and superficiality

Landscape Research

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 255-272

  Yu, Kongjian ^a   Padua, Mary G ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

China; Landscape design; Public open space; Urban design and planning

Indexed keywords

LANDSCAPE PLANNING; OPEN SPACE; PUBLIC SPACE; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN PLANNING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 34247247128     PISSN: 01426397     EISSN: 14699710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01426390701231820     Document Type: Article

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