China Lab: Guide to Mega-Block Urbanism

Jeffrey Johnson, Cressica Brazier, Tat Lam

Comumbia University Press & Actar, 2020

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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 The Guide to Megablock Urbanisms, the Columbia GSAPP China Lab aims to document a wider conversation on the policies and collective experiences of large-scale development and advances of China’s urban future.

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ISBN: 9781940291161

408 pages, illustrated, 25 x 17.5 cm, paperback, English