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

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