"Production first, living second" welfare housing and social transition in China
This chapter examines the production of Chinese urban housing in the Maoist era and how it reinvented "the primitive rural dwelling" as a model for the new socialist way of living. Under Mao’s radical vision of "continued revolution," the state rejected the comfortable private ho...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Architecture and the housing question / edited by Can Bilsel and Juliana Maxim |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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2022
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | This chapter examines the production of Chinese urban housing in the Maoist era and how it reinvented "the primitive rural dwelling" as a model for the new socialist way of living. Under Mao’s radical vision of "continued revolution," the state rejected the comfortable private home as a manifestation of bourgeois ideology and the work units (as the state’s representatives) sponsored building the earliest "welfare" housing projects as spaces of rural-style collective work and living. Minimum existence mass housing research started under the Soviet influences but such urban-based design practices managed to weaken Maoism and its antiurban policies. Assessing this history, the chapter contends that the primacy of the work-unit system in the production of housing in the Maoist era deprived those who didn’t have access to work units from accessing welfare housing; the disparities between different work units also caused social inequities. In the post-Mao era, the Chinese urban housing boom presented a paradox: state policies that engendered unequal access to housing prevented the emergence of the working class and, instead, helped create a privileged middle class. |
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| Beschreibung: | Illustrationen, Pläne |
| ISBN: | 978-0-815-39602-4 |