GREAT LEAP FORWARD - Rem Koolhaas
project on the city part 1
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Harvard Design School's Project on the City is a graduate thesis program that examines the effects of modernization on the urban condition. Each year the Project on the City studies a specific region or phenomena, & develops a conceptual framework & vocabulary for urban environments that can not be described within the traditional categories of architecture, landscape, or urbanism. In order to understand new forms of urbanization, thesis advisor Rem Koolhaas & students from the fields of architecture, landscape, & urbanism, document & analyze areas of study through a combination of field research, statistical analysis, historical developments, & anecdotal situations. The result of each project is an intensive, specialized study of the effects of modernization on the contemporary city. During the 1996-1997 period, Harvard's graduate students studied China's Pearl River Delta (PRD), a cluster of five cities with a population of twelve million destined to reach thirty-six million by the year 2020. The establishm...
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The Pearl River Delta region is a cluster of five cities that will become a megalopolis of 36 million inhabitants by the year 2020. Based on fieldwork conducted from 1996-1997, this book consists of a series of interrelated studies on the Westernization of the area.
Softcover, 709pp., 20x25cm., richly illustrated, as new. ISBN 3822860484. [Auteur: Rem Koolhaas (Editor), Sze Tsung Leong (Editor)] [Uitgever: , Taschen, 2001,] [Jaar: 1996] [Titel: Great Leap Forward: Harvard Design School. Project on the City ...
Softcover, 709pp., 20x25cm., richly illustrated, as new. ISBN 3822860484. [Auteur: Rem Koolhaas (Editor), Sze Tsung Leong (Editor)] [Uitgever: , Taschen, 2001,] [Jaar: 1996] [Titel: Great Leap Forward: Harvard Design School. Project on the City ...
