Progress & prosperity : the Chinese city as global urban model / editors, Daan Roggeveen, Frances Arnold ; contributors, Esther da Costa Meyer [and 11 others] ; photo essay, Eric Tabuchi.

Title & Author:

Progress & prosperity : the Chinese city as global urban model / editors, Daan Roggeveen, Frances Arnold ; contributors, Esther da Costa Meyer [and 11 others] ; photo essay, Eric Tabuchi.

Publication:

Rotterdam, the Netherlands : nai010 publihsers, [2017]

Description:

313 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Machine generated contents note: PROLOGUE -- Progress & Prosperity / Daan Roggeveen -- CONTEXT -- Shanghai: Colonial Modernism in Postcolonial Times / Esther da Costa Meyer -- Gentrification with Chinese Characteristics? / Ying Zhou -- Corporate Simulacra / Steven Y.N. Chen -- PROSPERITY -- Currency = Territory / Adrian Blackwell -- Risk in Architecture / David Gianotten -- Corporate Conglomerates as Agents of Urban Transformation / Justin D. Stern -- Urbanization is Necessary but not Sufficient / Jonathan Woetzel -- PROGRESS -- Urban Potential / XML -- The Future of the Museum in China / Jeffrey Johnson -- Architects Don't Have Power / Liu Yuyang -- Countryside as Countryside / Ou Ning -- EPILOGUE -- A Sort of Anti-Manifesto / WAI Think Tank.

Summary:

As urban development shifts from quantity-driven to quality-driven, this volume explores whether this Chinese metamorphosis can serve as a blueprint for cities worldwide.This publication focuses on the shift from building for construction's sake to that of building for progress. This text examines the future of mainly Chinese but also other Asian cities.

ISBN:

9789462083509 (pbk.)
9462083509 (pbk.)
(pdf)
9789462083660
(online)
9462083665

Subject:

City planning China 21st century.
City planning Asia 21st century.
Architecture and society China 21st century.
Architecture and society Asia 21st century.
Architecture et société Chine 21e siècle.
Architecture et société Asie 21e siècle.
Architecture and society.
City planning.
Stadtplanung
City planning China History 21st century.
Asia.
China.

Added entries:

Roggeveen, Daan, editor.
Arnold, Frances, 1961- editor.
Meyer, Esther da Costa, 1947- contributor.
Tabuchi, Eric, 1959- photographer.

Progress and prosperity

Holdings:

Location: Library main 297251
Call No.: BIB 243583
Status: Available

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