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Peal River Delta - Great Leap Forward:Growth of Morden China Landscape (Hardcover)
by Bernard Chang, Miha Craciun, Rem Koolhaas, Nancy Lin, Yuyang Liu, Katherine Orff, Stephanie Smith
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Author: Bernard Chang, Miha Craciun, Rem Koolhaas, Nancy Lin, Yuyang Liu, Katherine Orff, Stephanie Smith
Publisher: to be provided
Pub. in: February, 2002
ISBN: 3822860484
Pages: to be provided
Measurements: 9.8 x 8 x 2.1 inches
Origin of product: China
Order code: BA00996
Other information: ISBN 13: 9783822860489
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Discussed about "Project on the City" in the Pearl River Delta area of China, raised some strong questions about the consequences of China's dramatic economic transformation. |
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Harvard Graduate School of Design's independent study seminar Project on the City aims at identifying and analyzing problems leading to and resulting from accelerated urbanization, as well as developing new philosophies to aid our increasingly metropolitan planet cope with the rapid changes. Taking the roles of both architect and sociologist, the students travel and research in the first phase of each cycle, and write their theses in the second. The result of each project is a comprehensive, specialized study of the effects of modernization on the contemporary city. During the 1996-1997 period, Project on the City focused its sites on China's Pearl River Delta, a cluster of five cities with a population of 12 million destined to reach 36 million by 2020. Under the watchful eye of the Chinese Communist Party the Pearl River Delta has been (and still is) undergoing a Western-influenced, unrestricted capitalist development which is effectively destroying traditional Chinese social structures thereby producing an entirely new urban substance. Described as "laboratories for the contained unleashing of capitalism," these Special Economic Zones in the Pearl River Delta constitute an unprecedented experiment in urbanization on an astonishingly large scale. The new book presents thesis essays which explore, in a theoretical and critical context, the problematic results of this forced modernization and the possibility of a new system for understanding the troubled relationship between urbanization and economic growth.
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Business people, people who work on architecture, or interested in Urbanization movements.
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Chuihua Judy Chung is principal of Content Design Architecture Group in New York. With Sze Tsung Leong, she has assembled The Charged Void: Architecture, the complete architectural works of Alison and Peter Smithson. She is currently editing Owning a House in the City a study on low-income housing in the US.
Jeffrey Inaba, a partner of AMO (Architecture Media Organization) is writing a book on the work of Gordon Bunshaft and Kevin Roche.
Rem Koolhaas is principal of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam, and the author of Delirious New York and the groundbreaking S,M,L,XL.
Sze Tsung Leong is principal of Content Design Architecture Group in New York, whose current projects range from residential design to graphic and environmental materials for human rights organizations. Sze Tsung Leong is the author and co-editor of Slow Space (Monacelli, 1998).
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Once upon a time, Pearl River Delta was the cradle of a wide range of foodstuff. Inthe late 1970's, this wonderful picturesque was changed day by day as China door reopened. Today, Pearl River Delta is renowned as the world biggest factory.
The successful experience of Pearl River Delta development model stimulated hundreds of similar development projects in different corners of China. Being the birthplace of China modernisation, its historical position and importance was unique and irreplaceable.
This is the first book to witness all dramatic changes of the past 25 years in Pearl River Delta.
Contents
Introduction - Rem Koolhaas
Chronology - Yuyang Liu
Ideology: Shenzhen - Miha Craciun
Architecture: shenzhen - Nancy Lin
Money: Dongguan - Stephanie Smith
Landscape: Zhuhai - Katherine Orff
Policy: Guangzhou - Yuyang Liu
Infrastructure: Peal River Delta - Bernard Chang
Glossary: project on the City
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CITY OF EXCHANGED DIFFERENCE
Maybe Team X and Archigram were, in the sixties,the last real "movement" in urbanism, the last to propose with conviction new ideas and concepts for the organization of urban life. Inthe long interval since their time, there has been a huge increase in our understanding of the traditional city; there has been the usual ad hoc intelligence and improvisation and the development of akind of plastic urbanism, increasingly capable of creating an urban condition free of urbanity. At the same time, Asia has been in the grip of a relentless process of building, on a scale that has probably never been seen before. A maelstrom of moernization is destroying everywhere the existing conditions in Asia and everywhere creating a completely new urban substance. The absence, on the one hand, of plausible, universal doctrines and presence, on the other, of an un precedented intensity of production have created a unique, wrenching ondition: the urban seems to be least understood at the very moment of its apotheosis.
The reault is theoretical, critical and operational impasse, which force both academia and practice into posture of either confidence or indifference. In fact, the entire discipline possesses no adequate terminalogy to discuss the most pertinent, most crucial phenomena within its domain nor any coneptual framork to describe, interpret, and understand exactly those forces that could redefine and revitalize it. The field is abandoned to "events" considered indescriable or to the creation of a synthetic idyll in memory of city. There is nothing left between chaos and celebration.
Great Leap Forward is based on fieldwork conducted by thesis students, in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design, at Harvard Design School. The project consists of a series of interralated studies that together attempt to give an initial overview of the emerging urban conditions in China's Pearl River Delta(PRD), a region that, according to reliable predictions, is destined to grow to 34 million inhabitants by the year 2020 and, through sheer size alone, to play a critical role in the twenty-first century.
Research was conducted over the course of 1996, degining with a group visit in January-a counterclockwise journey that started in Shenzhen Special Economic Zone and ended in Hongkong. Over the summer, individual investigations focus on specific locations and subjects, but it seemed hopeless for such a small group of people with one major subject and urban condition where that subject woube be most tangible or pertinent.
Bernard Chang INFRASTRUCTURE Pearl River Delta
Mihai Craciun IDEOLOGY Shenzhen
Nancy Lin ARCHITECTURE Shenzhen
Yuyang Liu POLITICS Guangzhou
Kate Orff LANDSCAPE Zhuhai
Stephanie Smith MONEY Dongguan
Together these studies describe the PRD's urban condition, a new form of urban coexistence that we have called CITY OF EXCHANGED DIFFERENCE, or CODE. Beyond particularities of each condition that we found, Great Leap Forward introduces a number of "copyrighted" terms, which represent the contemporay urban condition. The emergence of PRD with the suddennedd of comet, and the present "could of unknowing" that preformance, are in themselves proof of the existence of parallel universes that untterly contradict the assumptuion that globalization equals grobal knowledge. |
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