Over the last ten years, the ancient city of Hangzhou, China, has tripled in size and added over a million people to its population. Learning from Hangzhou is an extended photoessay that situates Hangzhou within the physically and culturally transformative pressures of China's unbridled economic expansion. Between 2003 and 2008, more than 3,000 images of Hangzhou were taken, and then sorted for recurrent subject matter. This resulting condensed portrait catalogues such themes as the ubiquity of demolition and construction in Hangzhou, its architectural eclecticism, graffiti, advertising and the tenuous relationship between architecture and signage, all of which collide in an orgy of permissiveness--in a city once renowned for its tranquil beauty. This photo essay, which takes its cue from the seminal Learning from Las Vegas by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, is accompanied by texts that explicate Hangzhou's emblematic role in China's larger transformations.
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The frantic pace of urbanization in China has made conventional urban planning strategies seem pointless. How, after all, do you plan cities that grow by a few million inhabitants in less than a decade? "Learning from Hangzhou" is a delirious effort to make sense of this historic urban phenomenon. The book, whose title is a witty reference to Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour's 1972 book, "Learning from Las Vegas," examines everything from the Chinese city's rampant commercialization to the poor quality of housing for its migrant workers and the constant, 24-hour cycles of demolition and construction. This may be as close as you can get to seeing the future, and it's both euphoric and terrifying
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More like a visual travel report with 95% color photos/collages and 5% text content. Lacks in-depth exploration on the cause and effect of HZ's urban development and branded architecture in relations to the formation of the new chinese middle-class urbanite lifestyle. This book is definitely a photo documentation with a slightest touch of historic & economic background/explanation. 1 star for the historic and statistic research, 1 star for the visual/observation, 1 star for the color prints.
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