false 161783 1 Authors: Bernard Chang, Mihai Craciun, Rem Koolhaas, Nancy Lin, Yuyang Liu, Katherine Orff, Stephanie Smith Design: Alice Chung <P>Harvard Graduate School of Design's independent study seminar Project on the City aims at identifying and analyzing problems leading to and resulting from accelerated urbanization, as well as developing new philosophies to aid our increasingly metropolitan planet cope with the rapid changes. Taking the roles of both architect and sociologist, the students travel and research in the first phase of each cycle, and write their theses in the second. The result of each project is a comprehensive, specialized study of the effects of modernization on the contemporary city. During the 1996-1997 period, Project on the City focused its sites on China's Pearl River Delta, a cluster of five cities with a population of 12 million destined to reach 36 million by 2020. Under the watchful eye of the Chinese Communist Party the Pearl River Delta has been (and still is) undergoing a Western-influenced, unrestricted capitalist development which is effectively destroying traditional Chinese social structures thereby producing an entirely new urban substance. Described as "laboratories for the contained unleashing of capitalism," these Special Economic Zones in the Pearl River Delta constitute an unprecedented experiment in urbanization on an astonishingly large scale. The new book presents thesis essays which explore, in a theoretical and critical context, the problematic results of this forced modernization and the possibility of a new system for understanding the troubled relationship between urbanization and economic growth. 156144 22 2 2002 Great Leap Forward / Harvard Design School Project on the City total:16|4:9|3:4|2:3| 16 54 32 0 0 0 false false Sun Sep 27 15:42:50 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 15:42:50 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jun 27 01:17:58 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 01:17:58 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jun 04 15:12:36 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 15:12:40 -0700 2009 4 0 true false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Apr 21 05:45:14 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 05:45:31 -0700 2009 2+ 0 0 false false Sun Apr 19 00:44:39 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 00:44:39 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Feb 20 13:29:19 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 13:29:21 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Feb 07 16:30:12 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 16:30:12 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Feb 02 17:48:54 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 17:49:21 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Oct 05 15:27:04 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 05 15:27:04 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Mon Sep 15 14:02:30 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 14:02:30 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Jul 09 00:23:10 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 09 00:23:10 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun May 04 05:54:16 -0700 2008 Sun May 04 05:54:16 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu Mar 27 20:07:53 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 27 20:07:58 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Sun Mar 02 10:45:39 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 02 10:45:39 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Tue Feb 19 10:38:04 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 19 11:11:35 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Mon Feb 18 11:17:37 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 18 11:17:39 -0800 2008 2 0 false false Sat Feb 09 11:12:09 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 09 11:12:24 -0800 2008 2 0 false false Thu Jan 24 19:58:11 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 24 19:58:11 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Fri Jan 18 12:37:59 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 18 12:38:01 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sun Dec 23 02:04:16 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 23 02:04:16 -0800 2007