Empty Architecture and Empty Urbanism: the Remaking and Reframing on Contemporary Beijing
The paper discusses a collage and montage understanding of modernity and argues that Beijing offers a contemporary simulacrum of the global system of sign values that is epitomized by the new CCTV headquarters and more directly mirrored in the Beijing World Park. In reading Beijing this way, the pap...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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UCL Press
2016-01-01
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Series: | Architecture_MPS |
Online Access: | https://ucl.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14324/111.444.amps.2016v8i3.001 |