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URBAN CHINA URBAN CHINA by Carlo Aiello …… In most areas of new urban development, three main types of architecture are readily identifiable. The first one being areas for globalization with factories and urban parks funded by international corporations looking for low-cost labor. The second one is defined by spaces for consumption like shopping malls, hotels, theatres, apartment buildings, and supermarkets for the new Chinese bourgeois class and, finally, the ‘informal cities' with little or no infrastructure for rural migrants and low income residents. It is within these 'urban villages' that their dwellers create innovative solutions for daily-life through the reuse and reconfiguration of objects intended for other applications...... ...... A broken basketball is transformed into a water bucket, umbrellas attached to electricity posts become pavilions, and wool working gloves, provided in excess by the government to their factory workers, and knit into sweaters, pants and jackets. These are just a few examples are not isolated cases but fragments of a larger network of actions and events that constitute and characterize the 'informal city'. It is a phenomenon distinctive of the majority of the developing countries and the ability of their residents to transform an inhospitable place into a better 'home'. 抄书 TrackbacksThe trackback URL for this entry is: http://wangbowen1988.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!D326DB685E09C246!1419.trak Weblogs that reference this entry
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