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China's Urban Revolution - Understanding Chinese Eco-Cities (Paperback)
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China's Urban Revolution - Understanding Chinese Eco-Cities (Paperback)
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By 2025, China will have built fifteen new 'supercities' each with
25 million inhabitants. It will have created 250 'Eco-cities' as
well: clean, green, car-free, people-friendly, high-tech urban
centres. From the edge of an impending eco-catastrophe, we are
arguably witnessing history's greatest environmental turnaround -
an urban experiment that may provide valuable lessons for cities
worldwide. Whether or not we choose to believe the hype - there is
little doubt that this is an experiment that needs unpicking,
understanding, and learning from. Austin Williams, The
Architectural Review's China correspondent, explores the progress
and perils of China's vast eco-city program, describing the
complexities which emerge in the race to balance the environment
with industrialisation, quality with quantity, and the liberty of
the individual with the authority of the Chinese state. Lifting the
lid on the economic and social realities of the Chinese blueprint
for eco-modernisation, Williams tells the story of China's rise,
and reveals the pragmatic, political and economic motives that lurk
behind the successes and failures of its eco-cities. Will these new
kinds of urban developments be good, humane, healthy places? Can
China find a 'third way' in which humanity, nature, economic growth
and sustainability are reconciled? And what lessons can we learn
for our own vision of the urban future? This is a timely and
readable account which explores a range of themes - environmental,
political, cultural and architectural - to show how the eco-city
program sheds fascinating light on contemporary Chinese society,
and provides a lens through which to view the politics of
sustainability closer to home.
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