ABSTRACT
China in now engaged in global history's largest experiment in social mobility, but it is far from complete. While the hollowness of the South China Mall's statistical barrage, unmasks the representative space of Conservative and Bourgeois Socialism as little more than an ideological fantasy. If there is any edginess, one would imagine it would be on the part of the mall developers themselves, for in this subterranean world there appear to be few brands present that are recognizable on the international stage. Yet the built form displayed here seeks to frame class construction in terms that will preserve its upper strata and give them dominion over the formation of its lower echelons a lesson learned from Hong Kong's augmented city section. They also mean that attention at eye-level is unable to focus on much beyond the immediate. To grasp the physical conditions that constitutes this networked society.
