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After China: The World? Three Perspectives on a Critical Question
Author(s) -
Park Kyong,
Liauw Laurence,
Liu Doreen Heng
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.742
Subject(s) - china , urbanism , architecture , order (exchange) , capital (architecture) , world order , capital city , sociology , pearl , economy , political science , history , economic geography , law , geography , economics , archaeology , finance , politics
Are China’s cities now poised for global influence? This challenging question initiates a tripartite response from three authors: Kyong Park , Laurence Liauw and Doreen Heng Liu . In order to fully speculate on the potential of Chinese urbanism and architecture beyond its own borders: Park looks at whether China is a fully replicable capitalist model; Liauw outlines recent indicators of urban Sinofication around the world, whether it is the exporting of high‐end designer furniture to the West or the injection of Chinese capital into Africa; and Heng Liu examines the dissemination of the Pearl River Delta both as an idea ‐ first proliferated by Rem Koolhaas in the mid‐1990s ‐ and in its physical manifestations. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.