Feng Shui and the City analyses the past and contemporary influences of traditional geomancy on Chinese built environments across three domains: domestic spaces, spaces of commercial development and the public realm. Using Lefebvre’s notion of absolute and abstract space—spaces of ‘symbolic existence’ and ‘everyday life’ versus spaces of domination and control, it tracks evolving attachment to, and use of, Feng Shui in Guangdong and Hong Kong. The book seeks to understand the changing role of Feng Shui in modern urban development and its regulation, and to question what constitutes authentic Feng Shui today.
- ISBN13 9789811608469
- Publish Date 20 April 2021
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country SG
- Imprint Springer Verlag, Singapore
- Edition 1st ed. 2021
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 158
- Language English