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‘Outside’: filming the public spaces of Beijing.

February 28, 2011 – 8:00 am

One year ago, I wrote some notes on the urban public spaces of China (see post Reading the Urban Spaces of China). In it, I made a small reflection on the accelerating urbanization in China on the one hand and the differences in use of the public space between Western and non-Western countries on the [...]

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Reading the urban public spaces of China

July 8, 2009 – 3:50 pm

 

The last two decades debates on the future of public life and public spaces have been markedly western-oriented, negativist and raising often questions: does public space still matters for our public life?
To counter these views, I would like to offer a different and non-western perspective for the discussion. Here, I will talk about the case [...]

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