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Liquid Cities
Places Journal
In Japanese architecture and science fiction from the 1960s through the 1990s, we can trace an enduring question: “how to make substantial architecture when substantial things are losing their meaning.”
Confucius and Mao at the Mall
Places Journal
In China, local and regional governments are spending lavishly to establish a new kind of public space, marked by a fusion of Communist, nationalist, and capitalist symbols.
The Chinese Dream
Places Journal
In booming Guangzhou, rural migrant workers find their first footing in one of the city’s many urban villages. But what happens when the land becomes more valuable than the village?
Head of the Dragon: The Rise of New Shanghai
Places Journal
The fast-forward reinvention of Shanghai, a dynamic and contradictory city that has yet to live up to its historic promise — to sort out what it means to be Chinese and modern.
Zone: The Spatial Softwares of Extrastatecraft
Places Journal
The phenomenal rise of the free zone, an opportunistic urban hybrid that has powered the rise of glittering world cities like Singapore and Dubai.
Shanghai’s Avenue Queue
Places Journal
The Shanghai Expo is a study in superlatives, from the national pavilions to the media restrictions to the record-breaking queues.