CONTENTS
FOREWORD 7
Mohsen Mostafavi
PREFACE 9
Christopher C. M. Lee
INTRODUCTION 11
Christopher C. M . Lee
ESSAYS
The City as a Common Framework: Rethinking the Developmental City in China 16
Christopher C. M. Lee
Ten Thousand Things: Notes on a Constructof Largeness, Multiplicity, and Moral Statehood 34
Jianfei Zhu
Spatialization of the Collective: Logic and of Urban Forms in the Chinese City of the 1950s 46
Ling Fan
ANALYSIS
Xiamen: A City of Three Types 58
Yuan Zhan, Roy Yu-Ta Lin, Dingliang Yang
PROJECTS
The Xiamen Studio: An Introduction 72
Christopher C. M. Lee
Xiamen as Green Archipelago 74
Sonja Cheng, Waqas Jawaid
The Collective Perimeter 78
Aanya Chugh, Lik Hang Gu
The Two Sides 82
Roy Yu-Ta Lin
The City Room : Captures of Xiamen 86
Ryan Otterson, Michael Leef
Sequential Urbanism 90
Ryley Poblete
Production of Nature: Reframing Xi amen 94
Matthew Scarlett, Jisoo Yang
The Urban Sift: Exacerbated Proximities 100
John Martin Tubles, Jonghyun Yi
Cross-Border City
ESSAYS
The Border as a City 104
Christopher C. M. Lee
Borderlands as Urban Space:
Contexts for 21st-Century Chinese Cities 118
Piper Gaubatz
Macau and Its Borders 132
Peter G. Rowe, Har Ye Kan
ANALYSIS
Macau: Structure of the City 146
Fabiana Alvear, Hao Chen, Yun Fu, Jing Guo, Navajeet KC, Chen Hao Lin, Josh Schecter, Ashley Takacs, Gabriel Tomasulo
Macau: Land Reclamation 164
Fabiana Alvear, Hao Chen, Jing Guo
PROJECTS
The Macau Studio: An Introduction 174
Christopher C. M. Lee
Collective Border: The Latent Project of Gongbei 176
Yun Fu, Chen Hao Lin
Urban Respite: Reframing Density 182
Yatian Li, Mina Nishio
A Few Sharp Lines 186
Ashley Takacs, Gabriel Tomasulo
Marked Difference: Inscribing the City of Parts 192
Navajeet KC, Josh Schecter
Spaces of Exception: Housing as a Common
Framework for Cotai 198
Fabiana Alvear, Hao Chen, Jing Guo
The Distributed Border 204
Rae Pozdra, Sung Joon Chae
The Countryside as a City
ESSAYS
The Countryside as a City 210
Christopher C. M. Lee
Designing China's Rural Transformation 226
Dingliang Yang
China's Townization Plan and Its Implications 242
Peter G. Rowe, Har Ye Kan
ANALYSIS
Taiqian: Structure of the Countryside 248
Radhya Adityavarman, Carly Augustine, Jyri Eskola, Siwei Gou, Shaoliang Hua, Nicolas Lee, Wilfred Leung, Alexandra Medina, Feng Shen, PC Smit, Dimitris Venizelos, Zhenhuan Xu, Bicen Yue
PROJECTS
The Taiqian Studio : An Introduction 272
Christopher C. M. Lee
Within the Frame 274
Carly Augustine, Nicolas Lee
Common Fields: Frameworks for Rural Life 280
Feng Shen, Zhenhuan Xu
Non-Urban Apparatus 286
Shaoliang Hua, Jyri Eskola, Radhya Adityavarman
Village 292
Dimitris Venizelos, PC Smit
The Collective Frame 298
Alexandra Medina, Wilfred Leung
The City as a Field 304
Bicen Yue, Siwei Gou
Image and an Idea of Place 310
Simon Whittle
STUDIO CREDITS 324
CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES 325
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS 327