Communal springs: Jinan, China
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Pretty, Annabel
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2025-12-23
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Jinan (China)
China
springs
aquifers
water based communities
public spaces
civic centres
architecture education
Unitec courses
China
springs
aquifers
water based communities
public spaces
civic centres
architecture education
Unitec courses
ANZSRC Field of Research Code (2020)
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Pretty, A.C. (2025). Communal springs: Jinan, China. Asylum 2025, 118-121. https://www.unitec.ac.nz/epress/index.php/asylum-2025/
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To speak of Quancheng Square is to speak of a kind of urban respiration – the inhalation and exhalation of a city whose pulse still beats through its subterranean aquifers. Jinan, the City of Springs, performs its civic identity through this interplay of natural filtration and hard-edged urban form. Unitec’s School of Architecture teaching team has been staying near the square for nearly two decades when in Jinan – long enough to see the city’s financial heart migrate eastward, toward our partner university and joint undergraduate programme at Shandong Jianzhu University (SJU). Yet Quancheng remains, obstinately, the locus of civic metabolism – a space where bodies, water and granite continue their daily negotiation. When staying in a high-rise hotel devoid of greenery or communal thresholds, the outside becomes desperately important – an extension of breath, of release, of seeing and being seen.
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