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China Lab Guide to Megablock Urbanism

Jeffrey Johnson Cressica Brazier, Tat Lam

A wider conversation on the policies and collective experiences of large-scale development that are shaping China’s urban future. Superblocks are the basic unit of China’s urban development, but they are also spatial instruments with social, cultural, environmental, and economic implications, operating between the scales of architecture and the city. These redefined ‘Megablocks’ then become laboratories for the consequences, opportunities, and potential global proliferation of Chinese urban models, reconsidered through the filters of ecology, economics, and ethics. In this bilingual guide to Megablock Urbanisms, the Columbia GSAPP China Lab aims to document and advance the China’s urban future.

Contributions: Amale Andraos, David Bray, Eric Chang, Yung Ho Chang, Renee Y. Chow, Edward Denison, Duanfang Lu, Joris Fach, John Fitzgerald, Steven Holl, Michiel Hulshof, Jun Jiang, Clover Lee, Zhongjie Lin, Matthew Niederhauser, Xuefei Ren, Daan Roggeveen, André Schmidt, Grahame Shane, Jian Shi, Jiaming Zhu, Jianfei Zhu.

Co-published with Columbia GSAPP Eds. Jeffrey Johnson Cressica Brazier, Tat Lam Size 6.9 x 9.8 in. / 17,5 x 25 cm Format Softcover · 408 pages ISBN Printed · EN 978-1-94029-116-1 Price $49.95 / €45 / £40

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