The Social Imperative : : Architecture and the City in China.

• Author: Koon Wee, H.
• Place / Publishing House: New York City : : Actar D,, 2017.; Ã2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (373 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- FOREWORD -- 01 SPATIAL LIMITS OF SOCIALIST CHINA -- INTRODUCTION: SPATIAL LIMITS OF SOCIALIST CHINA -- LIBERATED LABOR AND SOCIAL MOBILITY -- SOCIAL CONTROL AND MODES OF RESISTANCE -- MEDIATED MASSES AND NETWORKED BODIES -- RATIONALIZATION AND SOCIAL AESTHETICS -- CONCLUSION: SOCIAL SCIENCE AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCT OF SCIENCE -- 02 MOBILIZING -- INTERVENTIONIST CITY -- SOCIAL HOUSING AND REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT FOR LIVABLE CITY -- DISABLED PERSON, DISABLED CITY, DISABLED ARCHITECTURE -- WHERE ANTS, ARTISTS, FLOATERS, AND RATS HANG OUT -- FOUR REVOLUTIONS IN BIG DATA -- TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE CITY -- 03 LABORING -- LAND WILL DO WELL. LAND CAN DO WELL. -- BIG FOOT REVOLUTION -- AGAINST ELITISM -- PROGRESSING FROM TRADITION -- GRAVITY IN LOCAL CONSTRUCTION -- 04 CONTROLLING -- THE RAPIDLY THINNING CITY -- THE OPEN CITY -- RECASTING SHOUGANG -- DAILY LIFE AS WORLDVIEW -- MULTIPLE IDENTITIES AND TEXTURAL DIVERSITY -- URBAN RENEWAL AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF POWER -- 05 RESISTING -- POWER OF THE GROUND -- SHANZHAI AND THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF RESISTANCE AND ASSIMILATION -- BOURGEOISIFIED PROLETARIAT -- PROTECTION AS RESISTANCE -- EIGHT URBAN MEMOIRS -- SEVEN YEARS AGO? THIS WAS ALL COUNTRYSIDE! -- 06 NETWORKING -- INSIDE-OUT PARTICIPATION -- THE INDIVIDUALIZED COLLECTIVE -- EXPERIMENTATION, EXCHANGE, LIFE, AND ART -- POSTMODERN SUBLIME -- CITY AS TACTICS: CURATION AND REACTION -- 07 MEDIATING -- MASS MEDIA AND CIVIL SOCIETY -- CIVIC POTENTIAL IN EVERYDAY ARCHITECTURE -- CONTEXTUALITY AND CONTRADICTION -- DEFEATED ARCHITECTURE -- DECENTERING BODIES -- POLITICAL AND PUBLIC COMMITMENT TO SUSTAINABILITY -- 08 RATIONALIZING -- AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOTE ON HISTORY AND IDENTITY -- ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN CULTURE -- MEGABLOCK URBANISM -- NEW RATIONALISM -- CIVIC IDENTITY IN A SHARED CITY -- NOTES ON AN ONTOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE -- 09 AESTHETICIZING.

AESTHETICS CULTURE AND HABITATION -- STRUCTURAL WEIGHT OF COLLECTIVE MEMORY -- ARCH-SCENARIOS IN RUINS -- TRUTH IN LANDSCAPE -- CULTURAL TRANSLATIONS -- COMMON AND TIMELESS SPACES -- BIOGRAPHIES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- GLOSSARY -- INDEX.