Great Leap Forward / Harvard Design School Project on the City
Edited by: Chuihua Judy Chung, Jeffrey Inaba, Rem Koolhaas, Sze Tsung Leong
In 1996-97, Harvard's graduate students studied China's Pearl River Delta (PRD), a cluster of five cities with a population of twelve million that will probably reach thirty-six million by the year 2020. The establishment in the PRD of Special Economic Zones - "laboratories for the contained unleashing of capitalism" - has hastened an unprecedented experiment in urbanization on an astonishingly large scale. Great Leap Forward contains essays that explore, in a theoretical and statistical context, the results of this rapid modernization, which has produced an entirely new urban substance.
About the editors:
Chuihua Judy Chung is principal of CODA Group (Content Design Architecture) in New York, whose projects encompass editorial and publication work, and graphic and architectural design. She is editing the forthcoming Owning a House in the City, a study on low-income housing in the US.
Jeffrey Inaba, a partner of AMO (Architecture Media Organization) is writing a book on the work of Gordon Bunshaft and Kevin Roche.
Rem Koolhaas is principal of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam, and the author of Delirious New York and S,M,L,XL. He is the recipient of the 2000 Pritzker Prize.
Sze Tsung Leong is principal of CODA Group (Content Design Architecture) in New York. With Chung, he has designed and edited The Charged Void: Architecture, the complete works of Alison and Peter Smithson. Leong is the co-editor and designer of Slow Space (Monacelli, 1998).
Edited by: Chuihua Judy Chung, Jeffrey Inaba, Rem Koolhaas, Sze Tsung Leong
In 1996-97, Harvard's graduate students studied China's Pearl River Delta (PRD), a cluster of five cities with a population of twelve million that will probably reach thirty-six million by the year 2020. The establishment in the PRD of Special Economic Zones - "laboratories for the contained unleashing of capitalism" - has hastened an unprecedented experiment in urbanization on an astonishingly large scale. Great Leap Forward contains essays that explore, in a theoretical and statistical context, the results of this rapid modernization, which has produced an entirely new urban substance.
About the editors:
Chuihua Judy Chung is principal of CODA Group (Content Design Architecture) in New York, whose projects encompass editorial and publication work, and graphic and architectural design. She is editing the forthcoming Owning a House in the City, a study on low-income housing in the US.
Jeffrey Inaba, a partner of AMO (Architecture Media Organization) is writing a book on the work of Gordon Bunshaft and Kevin Roche.
Rem Koolhaas is principal of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam, and the author of Delirious New York and S,M,L,XL. He is the recipient of the 2000 Pritzker Prize.
Sze Tsung Leong is principal of CODA Group (Content Design Architecture) in New York. With Chung, he has designed and edited The Charged Void: Architecture, the complete works of Alison and Peter Smithson. Leong is the co-editor and designer of Slow Space (Monacelli, 1998).
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