Urban plans and architectural interventions Chinese have always been linked to the power vertical. There is a historical continuity between the creation of the Forbidden City and the contemporary architecture today has emerged in China.
The aerial shot was melodramatic. A small house in the center of an excavated pit of seventeen meters in diameter and ten meters deep in a block list to receive the foundations of a future shopping center. Around buildings. On the roof of the house, a Chinese flag. Two hundred and seventy houses had been demolished in the same block, missing only this. He said "the Chongqing nail house. The image filled the international press, the owner Wu Ping and Wu Yang became famous. After three years of refusing to be evicted, the owners gave in to pressures, both builders and the government, and were relocated to a house of similar size in the Shapingba district on the outskirts of the city. The next day the house was demolished. The status quo continued. The gesture of the owners left the same sense of despair and futile heroism of the man who tried to stop the tanks near Tiananmen Square in 1989. Impotence of these acts makes it clear that if China intends to give any great leap forward no one can prevent it. I have tried for millennia. Continue to do so.
Urban plans and architectural interventions Chinese have always been linked to the power vertical. There is a historical continuity between the creation of the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square renovation by Mao Zedong and the current construction of skyscrapers and stadiums. Are plans that go beyond the creation of a civic spaces: the architecture is reduced to a mere symbol, its purpose is the demonstration of power coupled with a relentless assimilation of modernity would be unthinkable in any Western country. Urbanorregional development of China in the early twenty-first century is perhaps the largest experiment in human history population. The statistics are overwhelming. China consumes 54.7% of global production of concrete and 36.1% of steel production. In the next twenty years two hundred million peasants migrate to cities. Three urban agglomerations, Delta Pearl River, the Yangtze Delta and Beijing-Tianjin area, Tangshan, where over 120 million inhabitants. Only 2.800 skyscrapers in Shanghai are more than eighteen levels and found another two thousand in the project. In addition, the new hyper- Communist overflowing energy and eager for shielding the world at any cost. Anything goes and everything is done. That is, is a paradise for global design.
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