Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #218993 in Books
• Published on: 2001-12-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 800 pages

Customer Reviews

Visually perfect and the writing is good too!
A great title and a great project to take up, since china is so often neglected for studies of modern development. The essays were well chosen and provided good insight to an area most of us know little about.However having been to china i felt that the book was a little weak in not fully understanding the chinese outlook on life, and instead imposing western expectations on the cities and subject instead. The images were really fresh and unusual and it is certainly a book that breaks the usual mould of shallow or narrow sighted architecture books. The book is very timely bringing new issues into the arena and the realisation that china is where to look next in architectural terms. The most worthy book yet for starting conversations i have come across!