Year: 2002
Type: article
Abstract: The purpose of this research is to clarify the characteristics of architectural composition of old inner-city neighborhoods in Beijing where rapid modernization has been blamed for the destruction of many traditional neighborhoods called 'hutong'. We carried out a detailed survey of physical and social conditions of a selected neighborhood composed of traditional court-houses in the inner city area. Through this investigation, we have concluded that each court-house in the neighborhood is built appropriately according to the scale of its site and the spatial order of the neighborhood has been formed gradually in the long term.
Authors: Masaki FUJIKAWA, Hidehiko TANIMURA, Shun WATANABE
Institutions: University of Tsukuba, The University of Kitakyushu
Language: English
Subfield: Architecture
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2585968051