The Chinese city: boiled or scrambled egg?

The famous sketch by Cedric Price about the evolution of the city effectively illustrates, according to us, the mutation of the Chinese cities. In such a huge country as to constitute almost a continent, with a population that has always been the largest in the world, which now amounts to 1 billion 400 million people - with an economy in some ways inspired from the Western financial capitalism - and which is growing at exponential rates, the settlements, the city, its urban fabric models have represented, in the past but also today, one of the most interesting paradigms of urban phenomenon.