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050	0	0	_aNA2543.S6 _bS614 2017
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245	0	4	_aThe social imperative : _barchitecture and the city in China / _cedited by H. Koon Wee.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bActar Publishers, _c2017.
264		4	_c©2017
300			_aone EPUB e-book (83MB)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"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."-- _bProvided by publisher.
533			_aE-book. _bBarcelona, SP. _cActar Publishers. _d2021. _eEPUB file.
650		0	_aArchitecture and society _zChina _xHistory _y21st century.
650		0	_aArchitecture and state _zChina _xHistory _y21st century.
650		0	_aUrbanization _zChina.
650		0	_aCities and towns _zChina _xGrowth.
650		7	_aArchitectural design. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00813184
650		7	_aArchitecture and state. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00813586
650		7	_aCity planning. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00862177
651		0	_aChina _xSocial conditions _y2000-
651		7	_aChina. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01206073
653	0	0	_aTerritory & Mobility
700	1		_aWee, H. Koon, _eeditor.
710	2		_aAA Asia, _esponsoring body.
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