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Focusing on four selected case studies of large-scale housing projects in Suzhou Industrial Park, the paper explores how these new residential communities have engaged the themes of verticality and high-density living to create extensive constellations of modern but uniform high-rise urban communities.
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The article considers how and comment about the contradictions within this a-contextual modern urban landscape, which mirror to some extent a larger trend in Chinese and other East Asian cities, in a phase of exceptional urban development and economic growth at the turn of the 21st century.
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This page is a summary of: Verticality and Conflicting Identities in the Contemporary Chinese City: The Urban Development of Suzhou Industrial Park, April 2021, Inno Science Press,
DOI: 10.36922/jcau.v3i1.1026.
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