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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			_a360 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_aThis 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.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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
700	1		_aWee, H. Koon, _eeditor.
710	2		_aAA Asia, _esponsoring body.
999			_c11039 _d11039