03056cam a22004937i 4500 19273307 20221229195954.0 160913t20172017nyuab b 001 0 eng 7 cbc copycat 2 epcn 20 y-gencatlg acquire 1 shelf copy policy default 2016953801 9780989331791 0989331792 (OCoLC)on1018313718 AU@ eng rda AU@ OCLCO YDX OCLCF WTU BDX KSU UWW NRC OCLCQ DLC lccopycat a-cc--- NA2543.S6 S614 2017 720.1/030951 23 The social imperative : architecture and the city in China / edited by H. Koon Wee. First edition. New York : Actar Publishers, 2017. ©2017 360 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm text txt rdacontent still image sti rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier 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. Includes bibliographical references and index. Architecture and society China History 21st century. Architecture and state China History 21st century. Urbanization China. Cities and towns China Growth. Architectural design. fast (OCoLC)fst00813184 Architecture and state. fast (OCoLC)fst00813586 City planning. fast (OCoLC)fst00862177 China Social conditions 2000- China. fast (OCoLC)fst01206073 Wee, H. Koon, editor. AA Asia, sponsoring body. 11039 11039 0 0 ddc 0 0 BMSCA BMSCA 2023-03-06 9 2094.20 1 720.1/030951 AR-PG559 2025-11-28 00:00:00 2025-03-25 2991.72 2023-03-06 PG Rack No : S-207