Suzhou: Shaping an Ancient City for the New China: An Edaw/Pei Workshop

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Summary: Suzhou:Shaping an Ancient City for the New China
Review: This book is an essential guide for students of the master planning process and for those planners interested in developing sensitive and historic areas like the ancient and garden laden city of Suzhou. Prentice takes the reader on a rich visual, historical and political journey along slow moving canals, over resonant foot bridges and into quiet, shady courtyards. Simultaneously, one follows the progress of the master planning workshop lead by the internationally known firms EDAW/Pei group. The account presents surprising and often poetic insight into cross-cultural negotiation and provides a vivid understanding of the nuances of the charrette process. Included in the book are descriptive and elegant presentation drawings and lush photographs of one of China's top tourist destinations.