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Small Settlements and the Cultural Dimension of Urbanisation. Case studies in China and Europe

International Seminar: Small Settlements and the Cultural Dimension of Urbanisation. Case studies in China and Europe

Date

  • 18 février 2016

Lieu

  • Cité de l’Architecture & du Patrimoine
    1 Place du Trocadéro et du 11 Novembre, 75116 Paris

The Hangzhou Declaration, which followed the UNESCO Conference on ‘Culture for Sustainable Cities’ (December 2015), advocates for the full integration of cultural heritage, culture and creativity into the ‘New Urban Agenda’, to be adopted at the UN-Habitat III in
Quito, Ecuador, in October 2016.

In order to prevent standardized and prescriptive urban models, which are particularly affecting large portions of the world under the thread of massive urbanization, one of the strategic key-points to pursue is to acknowledge the cultural value of small settlements and landscapes, strengthening their relationships with cities.

China, in this respect, is probably one the most interesting case to observe. It is still a country with one of the highest countryside-city migration trend and evident urban-rural contradictions, but it is has been recently object of an unprecedented political attention to the conservation of its cultural roots. For this reason several questions are arising regarding the future of a rich and diverse legacy of rural villages with historic characteristics or, more in general, small settlements and towns, which are still present across the country. These questions are related to their regional location, their integration in complex urban systems and their equipment of local tangible and intangible resources.

The future of these settlements will be ultimately related to their local aspirations and to the development model they will be persuaded to follow: place-based or globalized ones. However, while the risk of utilizing local culture and heritage for over-commercialization or tourism over-exploitation is surely very high, new alternative and more sustainable approaches to local cultures are emerging.
The aim of the Europe-China International Seminar in Paris is to collect these cases in the attempt to learn from China by comparing them with European good practices.

Organisateurs

  • Françoise Ged, directrice Observatoire de l’architecture de la Chine contemporaine, Cité de l’Architecture & du Patrimoine – Paris (France)
  • Giulio Verdini, Associate Professor in Urban Planning and Co-Director of the Research, Institute of Urbanisation at Xi’an Jiaotong – Liverpool University – Suzhou (China)

Programme

Contact

Observatoire de l’architecture de la Chine contemporaine

Monique Abud

Centre d'études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine, EHESS, Paris, France

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OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Monique Abud (17 février 2016). Small Settlements and the Cultural Dimension of Urbanisation. Case studies in China and Europe. Carnets du Centre Chine (CNRS/EHESS). Consulté le 25 avril 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/mfh4


Monique Abud

Centre d'études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine, EHESS, Paris, France

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