| 摘 要： | For the first 800 years of its existence, Beijing retained essentially the same character: a walled palace city at its centre, organised on a strict north-south axis and contained within a sea of courtyard houses along lanes too narrow forcars. Today Beijing's basic unit of architectural scale has become the skyscraper, erected a dozen at a time and facing massive highways. Ancient buildings are so small and unloved by comparison that they threaten to disappear from view. Fuelled by an economic boom, and propelled by banks flushed with mortgage cash, Beijing has embarked on the largest building campaign the world has ever seen.
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