Bustler: Shanghai: City of the Future?

Shanghai: City of the Future?

Where: Toronto, Canada - Royal Ontario Museum
When: Tuesday, July 29, 2008

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Royal Ontario Museum, Level 1B
Signy and Cléophée Eaton Theatre
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
7:30 pm

Architecture experts share their perspectives on Shanghai’s remarkable growth and futuristic new architecture. Is this the future we can expect too?

Join Brian Andrew, WZMH Architects (Toronto), designer of the Shanghai Securities Exchange;

Mark Kingwell, philosopher, author of Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City (2008);

Jay Pridmore, critic and author of Shanghai: the Architecture of China’s Creat Urban Center (2008).

Moderated by Christopher Hume, architecture and urban issues critic, Toronto Star.

NOTE: Mark Kingwell and Jay Pridmore will be available to sign copies of their recent books which will be on sale after the panel discussion.

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urban, asia, canada, city, china, toronto, discussion, future, shanghai, ontario, royal ontario museum

Comments:

Nicky
Sunday, July 27, 2008

Hi guys will these events at some point have a video podcast program that all the rest of the world can share with? I'm sure a lot of architects and urban planners practicing in Shanghai would love to learn about it, too.

Joe Wesselak
Canada
Wednesday, July 30, 2008

in my view Shanghai is not a people city it is a city built around thr car much like it s American counter parts. Sorry to say new city s need to be built around people, walkable easy access to fresh food, water an open green spaces secure yet private housing an few roads an much public transit. This would maximise human productivity an creat a sence of well being amoung the populis. Cleaner air because air polution would be greatly reduced. But we all ready know this greed builds our cities not people right?