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Chinese Urban Development

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AR-456: Asian cities

Le centre de gravité de l'urbanisation du monde se déplace vers le continent asiatique. Quelles sont les singularités propres aux villes d'Asie? Comment se fabriquent-elles? Comment qualifier ces pratiques urbaines? Quelles sont leurs particularités cultur ...

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This lecture covers the major events in Chinese social, economic, and government history from 1949 to 2019, including the founding of the PRC, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, economic reforms, and key political figures. It also explores the principles of Chinese urban organization, such as feng shui, cosmology, and the layout of imperial cities, providing insights into the historical development of Chinese urban areas.

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Cosmology () is a branch of physics and metaphysics dealing with the nature of the universe. The term cosmology was first used in English in 1656 in Thomas Blount's Glossographia, and in 1731 taken up in Latin by German philosopher Christian Wolff, in Cosmologia Generalis. Religious or mythological cosmology is a body of beliefs based on mythological, religious, and esoteric literature and traditions of creation myths and eschatology. In the science of astronomy, cosmology is concerned with the study of the chronology of the universe.

Physical cosmology

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