THE CITY AFTER CHINESE NEW TOWNS

The course presents and discusses contemporary Chinese new towns focusing on two main issues: the spatial features and there gionalscaling-up of the Chinese urbanization processes.
While presenting these issues, on the one hand the course will emphasize the specificity of some investigated contexts, on the other, it will transcend the specific cases in order to question urban studies beyond the (alleged) exceptionality of Chinese urbanization.
By adopting this approach Chinese new towns become an object of study as well as a specific view point from which to radically re-discuss old categories, interpretations, and even the epistemology of the urban.

The lecture series is structured as follow:

26|02|2019_ h.15.00_Sala Caccia, Castello del Valentino

Lecture by: prof. Francesca Governa, prof. Angelo Sampieri_Politecnico di Torino
Lecture Title: The City after Chinese New Towns

04|03|2019_ h.17.30_Sala Caccia, Castello del Valentino

Lecture by: prof. Xuefei Ren_Michigan State University
Lecture Title: Building New Towns in Chinese Cities

12|03|2019_ h.17.30_Sala Caccia, Castello del Valentino

Lecture by: instructor Yang Dingliang_Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Lecture Title: Townization: New Urban Paradigm in China

12|04|2019_ h.10.00_Sala Caccia, Castello del Valentino

Lecture by: senior lecture Austin Williams_Kingston School of Art
Lecture Title: Eco-cities in China