'China is in the midst of breakneck transformation. The last 30 years of astonishing economic growth and political and cultural reform have been driven by the world’s biggest ever urban boom. The new China is now halfway built. Within the next 30 years China will most likely take centre-stage as a global superpower, with hundreds of millions of new urbanites flooding into the rapidly swelling cities. But this process - presenting no less than the construction of a new society - is taking place almost without time to think.

'Taking as its starting point the goal announced in China in 2001 to build 400 new cities of 1 million inhabitants each by 2020, or 20 new cities a year for 20 years, the book explores the hopes and hazards of dreaming on such a scale. The question being asked is in fact no less than how to build a new utopia. But is China mortgaging its present for a promised future, and doing so at the same time that current speeds of construction eclipse any real forward planning?

'The Chinese Dream is a visual tour de force, both encyclopedic in scope and holistic in approach. Cutting across all levels of scale - from individual to nation - and backed by a truly multi-disciplinary team (encompassing architecture & urban planning, politics, economics, arts & culture, environmental concerns, and sociology) the book synthesizes a vast body of research to tackle the big contemporary questions, and to unpack the paradoxes at the heart of China’s struggle for change.' (from the publisher's website)
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Onsite

Location code
REF.MAN4
Language

Chinese - Simplified, 

English

Keyword
Publication/Creation date

2008

No of pages

784

ISBN / ISSN

9789064506529

No of copies

1

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

Introduction - Neville MARS, Adrian HORNSBY

PUC - Saskia VENDEL

Keep'em Coming - Adrian HORNSBY

China's Energy Fix - Louis COULOMB

The Green Edge - Neville MARS, Erich W. SCHIENKE

Lockdown - Neville MARS, Saskia VENDEL

'Hey Fuck! Where'd the City Go?' - Adrian HORNSBY

BBT - Charlie KOOLHAAS, Adrian HORNSBY

Policy Sprawl - LIU Chang, 劉暢

Dynamic Density - Neville MARS, Adrian HORNSBY

D-Rail - Adrian HORNSBY

Consumurbation - Austin KILROY

Utopian Cities - PAN Wei, 潘維

Cracking Creativity! - Philip DODD, Neville MARS, Adrian HORNSBY

Cities Without History - Neville MARS

'Too Much Joy and Splendor' - Martijn DE WAAL

My Dream Survey - Neville MARS, Adrian HORNSBY

Quotes 'N' Notes, Maprings

Perceived Density

Glossary/ From Lipstick to Skyscraper - Reineke OTTEN

Look Ma! No Hierarchy - Quinn COMENDANT

The Chinese Dream: A Society Under Construction
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The Chinese Dream: A Society Under Construction