ABSTRACT
Many developers expect a much higher yield from their developments, and it is ultimately this that drives the form of the new breed that we can discover in China today. It is the three-storey, 130,000 square metre shopping mall podium containing 360 shops, that is most relevance to this study. But the notion of scale that concerned with analysing deals with the natural grain of the city. Self-mythologizing and faintly hubristic models such as Oriental Plaza and Golden Resources have an ideological bent that will be explored in the next section. It could also be argued that a sense of openness, in the permeability of their borders, begins to subtly introduce new ideas of what open public' space might be. As a key component in the Chinese machine city it exists as an order within an order, a reified version of the heterotopic cell, which now elucidate.
