Magazine Urban China

Urban China #35

Special issue Urban China: How to be holistic? 花好四万亿！

Edited by Neville Mars, with contributions by the DCF and numerous international designers and institutes.

China, like so many countries, is adopting a stimulus package. An impressive 4.2 Trillion RMB has been allocated to keep the economy moving at a Chinese pace. But unlike so many Western nations struggling to determine how the money should be spent, China has a stringent to-do list with a strong urban focus. Nation building through city building. Yet it remains unclear how the individual bullets on this list - infrastructure, housing, environment, etc. - should relate to each other. Yet a ‘better city’ can only be the result of an integrated vision connecting all the scales of design. After thirty years of accelerated growth a top-down megaproject approach of crude answers can no longer suffice. This special issue of Urban China examines the contradictory choices China faces, mapping out an holistic approach from policies to individual people.

Download the Magazine Urban China 城市中国 as PDF

Or view PDF Slideshow on Scribd (not available in China).

Download special Insert Introduction and Poster

Download Hangzhou photo essay and Dream Survey Poster

Extended articles available here: http://supersatellites.burb.tv/

BURB Magazine

=诡异之城十周年纪念

Concept and artwork: Neville Mars
written and edited by Adrian Hornsby and Neville Mars with DCF.

BURB is a magazine from the year 2020 that describes the life in the advanced urban setting that has emerged. Dense and intense, beautiful cityscapes have been created, but reading the articles and interviews it becomes clear cities as the result solely built on commercial forces lack many qualities. This issue looks back at the period 2010-2020 and celebrates the ten year anniversary of the 'Cunning City'. Slowly the stark reality below the surface of slick architecture and mind numbing commercialization become apparent.

PDF Slideshow: http://www.scribd.com/full/12896406?access_key=key-i3j5epal2v4clw7floe

Articles here: http://burb.tv/view/BURB_MAGAZINE