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Title: Chinese Imperial City Planning by Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt ISBN: 0-8248-2196-3 Publisher: University of Hawaii Press Pub. Date: April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: Steinhardt's work shows the importance of Chinese cities
Comment: Chinese Imperial City Planning is an excellent historical account of the spatial development of China's ancient cities. Extremely well researched, Steinhardt does a nice job of chronicling the impacts each empire had on urban form in China.

As a scholar interested in Japanese and other East Asian cities, the author's chapter discussing China's historical legacy to urban form in Ancient Japan, was especially interesting. This chapter clearly illustrates how necessary the study of Chinese cities is to the understanding of other Asian cities. It also demonstrates the care Steinhardt took in her research.

I recommend this book to anyone interested in the historical origins of urban planning and spatial form in China and Japan.

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