ARCH 214bg Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Architecture, Deng Xiaoping, Shigeru Ban
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Background: cultural revolution 66-76 roughly, essentially a collective lobotomy in terms of the past. As an attempt to eradicate the past and start fresh. He looked at how to move the country forward; he was a chess player so he was strategic. Shenzhen is a new city, directly across from hong kong. He was good at determining economic zones along the coast and also placing. Shenzhen to challenge the existing western authority of hong kong. This was typical of man civilizations in america. Landfill was ordered and created by cut and fill. Goal was to create flat land for a city. Shenzhen was a fishing village that became a city. Wang yun, liu jiakun, ma yangsong(mad), zhu pei, fang zhenning, Contrary to japan: in first gen there were women to nearly half now. Most of the people in china were alive during the cultural revolution.
