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Great Leap Forward Edited by Chuihua Judy Chung, Jeffrey Inaba, Rem Koolhaas, Sze
Tsung Contributors: Bernard Chang, Mihai Craciun, Nancy Lin, Yuyang Liu, Katherine Orff, Stephanie Smith |
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Destined to become a crucial presence in the twenty-first century through sheer size alone, the Pearl River Delta region of the People's Republic of China – a cluster of five cities with a population of 12 million that will become a megalopolis of 36 million inhabitants by the year 2020 – has been gripped by a relentless pursuit of development at a scale and velocity previously unseen in the world. This maelstrom of modernization has been hastened by the presence of two Special Economic Zones in the Pearl River Delta: laboratories for the combined experimentation of communism and capitalism that have produced an entirely new urban substance. Great Leap Forward is based on field work conducted in 1996 and consists of a series of interrelated studies investigating a complex urban condition that has resulted from a uniquely transformed political environment.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION Rem Koolhaas
CHRONOLOGY Pearl River Delta Yuyang Liu
IDEOLOGY Shenzhen Mihai Craciun
ARCHITECTURE Shenzhen Nancy Lin
MONEY Dongguan Stephanie Smith
LANDSCAPE Zhuhai Kate Orff
POLICY Guangzhou Yuyang Liu
INFRASTRUCTURE Pearl River Delta Bernard
Chang
GLOSSARY Project on the City
Publication Title:
Great Leap Forward: GSD Project on the City 1
Year Published:
2002, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Author:
Edited by Chuihua Judy Chung, Jeffrey Inaba, Rem Koolhaas, Sze Tsung
Leong
Format:
721 pages, softcover.
In the Frances Loeb Library:
HT384.C62 G82 2001
Special Collections Rare HT384.C62 G82 2001