ABSTRACTThe book can be regarded as the author's response to the present conditions of urbanand regional development in China.In the past two decades,China saw reform and theopening up of the economy,acceleration of urbanization,and the emergence of complexissues in urban and regional growth.Existing academic disciplines and professionalpractice that concern the built environment seem to be unable to cope with the new andwider issues on the horizon,lacking consensus and a common goal.There is a pressingneed to revisit the traditional concept concerning human settlement,society and theenvironment in the light of holistic thinking.The concept of the Sciences of Human Settlements is initially derived fromC.A.Doxiadis's Ekistics.However,Doxiadis's singular Science of Human Settlements ishere replaced by an interrelated and interacting group of sciences for the built environment.This book reviews the developmcntof planning and design thoughts in the past centuryand proposes a new methodological framework for considering the contributions of thevarious disciplines and professional practices to the complex system of human settlementsin China.Philosophically speaking,it is based on the science of complexity.It alsoconsiders the planning and design approaches and professional education required to beimplemented.The author is a professor of architecture and planning at Tsinghua University.Bor in1922,he started his studies of architecture and urban planning in 1940.In 1948-50,hestudied with Eliel Saarinen.For the past 50 years,he has been teaching in TsinghuaUniversity.He is Director of Institute of Architectural and Urban Studies,Director ofthe Center for Science of Human Settlements,and President of the Chinese Society ofUrban Planning.He was vice-President of the Insternational Union of Architects(1987-1990)and President of the World Society of Ekistics(1993~1995).理甄Z.ZC.ET
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