04764cam a22005057i 4500 19273307 Urban Next Europ 20221130130424.0 a|||||q|||| 00| 0 cr an aaaaa 160913t20172017nyuab qb 001 0 eng 2016953801 9781638409755 (epub) (OCoLC)on1018313718 AU@ eng rda AU@ OCLCO YDX OCLCF WTU BDX KSU UWW NRC OCLCQ DLC lccopycat a-cc--- NA2543.S6 S614 2017 720.1/030951 23 The social imperative : architecture and the city in China / edited by H. Koon Wee. First edition. New York : Actar Publishers, 2017. ©2017 one EPUB e-book (83MB) text txt rdacontent Includes bibliographical references and index. "This book contains multiple short critiques, reflections and manifestos, affording each contributing architect and intellectual the time and space to imagine new social paradigms in China. Emerging from a tumultuous history of high culture and complex territorial conditions, there is nothing straightforward about the social development of China. The complexity of the social practices developed by architects and shapers of the built environment can be explained in part by the last three decades of an intensified adoption of the market economy by the Communist Party of China, after an equally short three decades of closed-door communist control. There is no political meltdown like the democratization of the former Communist Bloc, but there is a constant managing of discontent and resistance across China. At the apex of the many creative and intellectual forces in China, architects harbor and give form to many tactics of resistance. Unfortunately, architects are also the instruments and minds complicit with profit-mongering developers and governments, pursuing unchecked urbanization, degradation of the environment, exploitation of the marginalized, and the creation of a very inequitable China. This book begins with an introduction that defines the forms and tendencies of China’s society as it stands today, and it positions the work of a small number of architects and intellectuals who are at the forefront of reforming, rethinking and even revolutionizing the Chinese society. Beneath the veneer of a very successful China that the world readily acknowledges, a quiet revolution is taking place within the realms of architecture and the city. The social, architectural and urban theories documented in this book are organized around the established canons of social actions – from mobilizing, laboring, resisting and mediating, to networking, controlling, rationalizing and aestheticizing. This book aims to put the social agenda squarely back in the rapid development of the built environment in China. This publication is the culmination of a three-year study of social issues in the architecture and cities of China. It involved visits to sites undergoing massive change, discussions and debates among architects and critics, reflections by practitioners about their own work, and activists lobbying for social change. Supported by the non-profit AA Asia, the edition of the contents relied heavily on original input and exchanges between architects and theorists committed to China, from Asia and beyond. Since the 1990s, AA Asia remains one of a few unique think tanks committed to the study of architecture and cities in Asia. As an advocacy with strong academic roots, it seeks to establish the differences across various postcolonial and Asian contexts, and recalibrate the role of architecture in a technocratic era dominated by the global economy."-- Provided by publisher. E-book. Barcelona, SP. Actar Publishers. 2021. EPUB file. Architecture and society China History 21st century. Architecture and state China History 21st century. Urbanization China. Cities and towns China Growth. Architectural design. fast (OCoLC)fst00813184 Architecture and state. fast (OCoLC)fst00813586 City planning. fast (OCoLC)fst00862177 China Social conditions 2000- China. fast (OCoLC)fst01206073 Territory & Mobility Wee, H. Koon, editor. AA Asia, sponsoring body. 7 cbc copycat 2 epcn 20 y-gencatlg ddc CF 0 536 536 0 0 ddc 0 0 9876543210 9876543210 2022-11-30 0 2022-11-30 2022-11-30 CF