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• Chinese Notions of Public Space Transculturation in Urban Design and Architecture after the ‘Reform and Opening-up’ in 1978

  Wenwen Sun

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  This thesis investigates the understanding and implementation of public space in the reformed Chinese context, particularly from the perspectives of urban design and architecture, by referring to the complex process and result of transculturation (transculturación). It delineates how public space as a Greco-Roman originated concept traversed the urban and architectural cultures of post-reform China, merging and negotiating with the local conditions, and evolved into a new phenomenon in...