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China Lab invites contributors to join us in collectively exploring the phenomenon of large-scale development in China and beyond. Superblocks are the basic unit of China's urban development, but they are also spatial instruments with social, cultural, environmental, and economic implications, operating between the scales of architecture and the city. These redefined "Megablocks" then become laboratories for the consequences, opportunities, and potential global proliferation of Chinese urban models, reconsidered through the filters of ecology, economics, and ethics. In the Guide to Megablock Urbanisms, China Lab aims to document and advance a wider conversation on the policies and collective experiences of large-scale development that are shaping China's urban future.

SUPPORTED BY:

Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University

Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts