Through 52 critiques, reflections, and essays, architects, urbanists, theorists, critics, and academics from China and elsewhere explore social change in relation to architecture and cities in China, looking at the histories of social change across different cultures and geographies, to situate the histories of social reform and revolutions in China. They focus on the processes of social action, rather than typologies found in the built environment, addressing issues like labor and social mobility, social control and modes of resistance, social housing and real estate development for a livable city, disability, urban renewal, mass media, big data modeling and urbanization, sustainability, elitism, suburbanization, everyday architecture, and collective memory. Annotation 2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
