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Hardcover: 720 pages
Publisher: Taschen, 2002
ISBN-10: 3822860484
ISBN-13: 978-3822860489
OMA blurb: Destined to become a crucial presence
in the twenty-first century through sheer size alone, the Pearl
River Delta region of the People's Republic of China - a cluster of
five cities with a population of 12 million that will become a
megalopolis of 36 million inhabitants by the year 2020 - has been
gripped by a relentless pursuit of development at a scale and
velocity previously unseen in the world. This maelstrom of
modernization has been hastened by the presence of two Special
Economic Zones in the Pearl River Delta: laboratories for the
combined experimentation of communism and capitalism that have
produced an entirely new urban substance. Great Leap Forward is
based on field work conducted in 1996 and consists of a series of
interrelated studies investigating a complex urban condition that
has resulted from a uniquely transformed political environment.
Essays by Bernard Chang, Mihai Cracium, Rem Koolhaas, Nancy Lkin,
Yuyang Liu, Kate Orff, Stephanie Smith with commentary by qingyun
Ma. Design by Alice Chung.
Project on the City I: Great Leap Forward
