Urban Modeling and Contemporary Technologies of City-Building in China: The Production of Regimes of Green Urbanisms

Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of being Global

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 55-76

  Hoffman, Lisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

"Strive not to be the largest, but to be the best" Dalian, major port city in China; "urban modeling" and inter referencing of models within and across Asia, urban governance; Dalian as "an environmental demonstration zone and environmental model city"; Dalian's official designation as a garden city, global process of city modeling; Globally, greening projects attractive to urban leaders; Mayor Bo's "greening project" Dalian's garden city modeling, "target" or "standard" emulated; Modeling, mode of governing urban in contemporary China, disparate rationalities; Urban modeling and technologies of city building in China regimes of green urbanisms; Urban modeling, governmental practice kinds of spaces and subjects; Urban modeling, model existing place, presenting itself as a model

Indexed keywords

EID: 81055130383     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444346800.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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