Villages in the City: A Guide to South China's Informal Settlements

by Stefan Al

Countless Chinese villages have been engulfed by modern cities. They no longer consist of picturesque farms and feng shui groves, but of high-rise buildings so close to each other that they create dark claustrophobic alleys--jammed with dripping air-conditioners, hanging clothes, caged balconies and bundles of buzzing electric wires, and crowned with a small strip of daylight, known as "thin line sky." At times, buildings stand so close to another...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824847563
• ISBN13: 9780824847562
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"