Main entry:

Johnson, Jeffrey, author.

Title & Author:

The China lab guide to megablock urbanisms / Jeffrey Johnson, Cressica Brazier, Tat Lam.

Publication:

New York : Actar Publishers, [2020]
©2020

Description:

407 pages : color illustrations, maps, plans ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Catalog. Mapping the superblock -- 100 superblocks -- Superblock data comparison -- 1.0 : History. Residential planning in contemporary China: A genealogy / Duanfang Lu -- Block, superblock, and megablock: A short morphological history / David Grahame Shane -- History lessons in Shanghai / Edward Denison -- 2.0 : Urbanism. Who's afraid of the superblock? / Eric Chang -- 3D city: Utopian or ideal? / Jun Jiang -- Floating islands and the loss of urbanity / Jian Shi -- Living inside and outside the superblock / Yung Ho Chang, interview with Jeffrey Johnson -- Superblock photo essay / John Fitzgerald and Matthew Niederhauser -- 3.0 : Policy. From Danwei to Xiaoqu: The genealogy of a peculiar urban form / David Bray -- 4.0 : Economy. Dangdong: Instant city real estate / Jiaming Ju -- 5.0 : Society. Superblock security / André Schmidt and Joris Fach -- 6.0 : Ecology. Residential development in China's eco-city movement / Zhongjie Lin -- Eco-cities within cities / Steven Holl, interview with Tat Lam -- 7.0 : Export. These gates provide freedom / Michiel Hulshof and Daan Roggeveen -- Megablock dialogues / Jeffrey Johnson, Renee Y. Chow, Jianfei Zhu, Clover Lee, Jun Jiang, Xuefei Ren.

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

ISBN:

9781940291161 (paperback)
194029116X (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture and state China.
City planning China.
Architectural design China.
Architecture Politique gouvernementale Chine.
Design architectural Chine.
Architectural design
Architecture and state
City planning
China

Form/genre:

encyclopedias.
Encyclopedias
Encyclopédies.

Added entries:

Brazier, Cressica, author.
Lam, Tat, author.

Title on front cover and spine: China lab guide to mega-block urbanism

Holdings:

Location: Library main 309151
Call No.: BIB 254435
Status: Available