Beijing Record

Singapore: World Scientific, 2011. First Edition (presumed; no prior editions or printings cited). Octavo in pictorial boards; 512 pp: illustrations, photogrpahs (some color), maps; 24 cm Near fine; mild bump to lower corners; near imperceptible bumping to top and tail of spine; pages crisp, bight, and clean; binding tight. Hardcover. ISBN: 9789814295727

"Beijing Record, the result of ten years of research on the urban transformation of Beijing in the last fifty years, brings to an extended Western audience the inside story on the key decisions that led to Beijing's present urban fragmentation and its loss of memory and history in the form of bulldozing its architectural heritage. Wang's publication presents a survey of the main developments and government-level (both central and municipal) decisions, devoting a lot of attention to the 1950s and 1960s, when Beijing experienced a critical wave of transformative events." --Publisher | City Planning | Architecture