The metropolitan green belt, changing an institution

A Mace - Progress in Planning, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Metropolitan Green Belt (MGB) was established in the 1930s and has
expanded enormously since. Accompanying polices, including New Towns, have since …

Space as method: field sites and encounters in Beijing's green belts

Y Zhao - City, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Great urban transformations are diffusing across the global South, removing the original
landscape of urban margins to make of them a new urban frontier. These processes raise …

The hegemony of urbanisation: Questioning the production of space by the state in Beijing's green belts

Y Zhao - 2017 - etheses.lse.ac.uk
This thesis aims to investigate the state question in the context of China's urban change, with
Beijing's green belts as the study site. Formerly places where the socialist-modernist vision …

Public green: Divided and shared space

G Steiner - City, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Gaby Steiner is a visual artist and photographer from Switzerland. During her visits to Beijing
she witnessed dramatic urban changes and started to explore the transformations around …