TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wee,H.Koon
ED  - AA Asia,
TI  - The social imperative: architecture and the city in China 
SN  - 9780989331791
AV  - NA2543.S6 S614 2017
U1  - 720.1/030951 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - Actar Publishers
KW  - Architecture and society
KW  - China
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Architecture and state
KW  - Urbanization
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - Growth
KW  - Architectural design
KW  - fast
KW  - City planning
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 2000-
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
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