The China Lab Guide to Megablock Urbanisms / edited by Jeffrey Johnson, Cressica Brazier, and Tat Lam.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnson, Jeffrey, editor.

Brazier, Cressica, editor.

Lam, Tat, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and state--China.

Architecture and state.

City planning--China.

City planning.

Architectural design--China.

Architectural design.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Actar Publishers, [2020]

Summary:

A wider conversation on the policies and collective experiences of large-scale development that are shaping China's urban future. Superblocks are the basic unit of China's urban development, but they are also spatial instruments with social, cultural, environmental, and economic implications, operating between the scales of architecture and the city. These redefined 'Megablocks' then become laboratories for the consequences, opportunities, and potential global proliferation of Chinese urban models, reconsidered through the filters of ecology, economics, and ethics. In this bilingual Guide to Megablock Urbanisms, China Lab aims to document and advance China's urban future. Co-published with GSAPP, Columbia University.Contributions: Amale Andraos, David Bray, Eric Chang, Yung Ho Chang, Renee Y. Chow, Edward Denison, Duanfang Lu, Joris Fach, John Fitzgerald, Steven Holl, Michiel Hulshof, Jun Jiang, Clover Lee, Zhongjie Lin, Matthew Niederhauser, Xuefei Ren, Daan Roggeveen, André Schmidt, Grahame Shane, Jian Shi, Jiaming Zhu, Jianfei Zhu

Contents:

Intro

Foreword

Introduction/Redefinition

Mapping the Superblock

100 Superblocks

Superblock Data Comparison

1.0 History

2.0 Urbanism

3.0 Policy

4.0 Economy

5.0 Society

6.0 Ecology

7.0 Export

Acknowledgments

Image Credits.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Johnson, Jeffrey The China Lab Guide to Megablock Urbanisms

ISBN:

9781638408291

1638408297

OCLC:

1295272518