摘 要: | This article summarizes a study of eight neighbor-hood renewal projects implemented in the old city of Beij-ing The survey aimed to review the actual constructionand inhabitation emerging from Beijing’s housing renew-al program.The selection of project case studies was bas-ed on their being partially or fully completed and occu-pied,thus allowing signeficant observation of the envi-ronment as actually used and discussed by the residents.They include examples of early experimental pilot proj-ects completed before 1991 as well as large projects builtunder Phase I of the broadened renewal program.Inmost cases,later phases of the projects are still underconstruction.Despite the early and incomplete status ofthe program,certain trends have emerged.This articledraws attention to some critical differences between theinitial expersmental approach and the more recent,larg-er—scale approach reflected in the Phase I projects com-pleted so far.
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