The China Lab Guide to Megablock Urbanisms
Jeffrey Johnson, Cressica Brazier, Tat Lam (Editors)
Actar Publishers/Columbia GSAPP, November 2020

Paperback | 7 x 9-3/4 inches | 408 pages | English | ISBN: 978-1940291161 | $49.95

PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
Superblocks are the basic unit of China?s urban development, but they are also spatial instruments with social, cultural, environmental, and economic implications, operating between the scales of architecture and the city. These redefined ?Megablocks? then become laboratories for the consequences, opportunities, and potential global proliferation of Chinese urban models, reconsidered through the filters of ecology, economics, and ethics.
In The Guide to Megablock Urbanisms, the Columbia GSAPP China Lab aims to document a wider conversation on the policies and collective experiences of large-scale development and advances of China?s urban future. Jeffrey Johnson is the director of the School of Architecture at the University of Kentucky College of Design and a principal of SLAB Architecture. Cressica Brazier is a PhD candidate in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Tat Lam is currently the CEO of Shanzhai City, a social enterprise to research development finance, poverty alleviation strategies, and technological solutions for the bottom billion market.
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