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RED DAWN CHINA'S NEW DAWN: AN ARCHITECTURAL TRANSFORMATION By Layla Dawson. Munich: Prestel. 2005. £25
China uses 54 per cent of the world's concrete production and some 36 per cent of its steel. No less than 90 per cent of the world's most polluted cities are in China. Layla Dawson has heroically dived headfirst into the filthy maelstrom to find herself surrounded by creatures at least as bizarre as those encountered by Alice in the Caucus Race, but they are, for the most part, a great deal more nasty and less endearing than Lewis Carroll's characters.
China's New Dawn: an Architectural Transformation is a mainly pictorial survey of some 50 projects, recently completed or in train, with a perceptive introduction that sets the current building boom into historic,...