City acupuncture: the sustainable development of the balanced city in post-industrial age

Authors

  • Zhang Minhao
  • Lou Lubei
  • Fu Junyi
  • Pan Jiameng

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5821/siiu.6006

Abstract

After the Franco dictatorship, a new chapter occurred in Barcelona’s Democracy. As having fully understood the spirit of Cerda’s planning, the participants in Barcelona urban planning creatively started to use a treatment called acupuncture in the city, which has the same spirit as traditional Chinese medical science, and revived the ruined city, gradually gain back the balanced and sustainable management of the city. The thesis introduces the problems Barcelona met in the post-industrial age and the corresponding solutions, mainly focuses on Barcelona city renewal in the 80s, and tries to explain the relationship between traditional Chinese medical science and city acupuncture, which will be the clue of the thesis. The thesis will be described in three chapters, human body and city under the view of traditional Chinese medical science, acupuncture therapy and the Barcelona model and sustainable development of the balanced city.

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Sede Lisboa