{"product_id":"chinas-urban-revolution-austin-williams-9781350101807","title":"China's Urban Revolution: Understanding Chinese Eco-Cities","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy 2025, China will have built fifteen new 'supercities' each with 25 million inhabitants. It will have created 250 'Eco-cities' as well: clean, green, car-free, people-friendly, high-tech urban centres. From the edge of an impending eco-catastrophe, we are arguably witnessing history's greatest environmental turnaround - an urban experiment that may provide valuable lessons for cities worldwide. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhether or not we choose to believe the hype - there is little doubt that this is an experiment that needs unpicking, understanding, and learning from. Austin Williams, \u003ci\u003eThe Architectural Review'\u003c\/i\u003es China correspondent, explores the progress and perils of China's vast eco-city program, describing the complexities which emerge in the race to balance the environment with industrialisation, quality with quantity, and the liberty of the individual with the authority of the Chinese state. Lifting the lid on the economic and social realities of the Chinese blueprint for eco-modernisation, Williams tells the story of China's rise, and reveals the pragmatic, political and economic motives that lurk behind the successes and failures of its eco-cities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWill these new kinds of urban developments be good, humane, healthy places? Can China find a 'third way' in which humanity, nature, economic growth and sustainability are reconciled? And what lessons can we learn for our own vision of the urban future? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is a timely and readable account which explores a range of themes - environmental, political, cultural and architectural - to show how the eco-city program sheds fascinating light on contemporary Chinese society, and provides a lens through which to view the politics of sustainability closer to home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Austin Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 135010180X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350101807\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/07\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.70d","brand":"Austin Williams","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44181253980415,"sku":"9781350101807","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_977090a3-7ecf-4408-bb74-8cd00f38a69d.jpg?v=1690259419","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/chinas-urban-revolution-austin-williams-9781350101807","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}