of this development may If the modernist Western is also the obvious testing heritage in jeopardy. CURATOR’S obviously be even more model is employed to ground for such development. detrimental. Thus, to improve accommodate massive urban Ultimately, the economic living conditions, both in the migration in - within miracle of China is itself STATEMENT short and the long term, there the next 20 years, some 400 being put at risk. The Central is an urgent need for new and million Chinese people are Chinese Government is very more sustainable models of expected to move to the well aware of this. Thus, the 展览策划陈述 urban development. cities 2 - it may have newly released 11th five-year enormous and unpredictable plan is remarkable in the Chinese and Western environmental consequences But sustainability is not way that it for the first time Models of Urban not only for China, but for the only about corrupted advocates to “earnestly shift How to improve people’s are seriously challenged Development world at large. environments, pollution and socio-economic development living conditions without at another. The current There is, without a doubt, resource exhaustion. The onto the track of all-round exhausting the very resources processes of rapid and much that can be learned Today, the World’s total model of uneven economic coordinated and sustainable needed to sustain a better extensive urbanization (and about sustainable urban ecological footprint is already development in China has development”. 6 life? modernization) in China vastly development from the 1.2 times bigger than its dramatically increased increase the consumption of traditional Chinese city biocapacity 3, but with social disparities, especially Holistic Solutions The Urban Challenge natural resources like land, model, but it remains unclear continuous economic growth between rural and urban It is often argued, that Urbanization can be seen as water, forestry and minerals, whether this model, which combined with shortsighted populations, also within sustainable economic, a means to improve people’s thus putting tremendous was developed for a relative we may the cities themselves in the environmental and social living conditions. In this pressure on the local static society, can be adapted quickly reach a point where form of new urban solutions contradict each respect, the achievements environments. to a global market economy, we would actually need exemplified by the so-called other. But is that really true? during the past decades in individulized lifestyles and two planets to support the floating population of migrant An example to the contrary. China are unparalleled in the Increased energy and massive urban migration. The population of one. workers accounting for up to could be the windmill industry history of human civilization. resource consumption in modernist Western model 25% of the total population in . This industry was Due to radical economic China can be felt around the may be better suited for this, Sustainable Development in some of the major cities. basically created by a few reforms and massive urban globe in the form of shortages but it is far from a perfect With 16 out of the 20 individual pioneers who used development, about 400 of construction materials, solution. Urban development most polluted cities in the their skills as steelsmiths etc. million Chinese people were rising oil prices and unstable based on mono-functional World 4 and projections to refine existing technologies lifted out of extreme poverty power supply. In China it can zoning necessitates vast of unparalleled resource and put them into new use. during the period between be further experienced as areas of land and extensive consumption, the need Later the development of 1980 and 2001, which deteriorated environments transportation systems. for sustainable urban this industry was supported account for roughly three plagued by smog and poor air Because the individual development is probably by stricter environmental quarters of the total number quality, lack of green space, zones are only active during more acute in China than Furthermore, the extreme policies favouring renewable worldwide. 1 disrupted eco-systems and specific time frames, this anywhere else. And with speed and the enormous energy over other forms of However, while living polluted water systems. results in an excess of energy almost 50% of all new floor scale of urban development in energy. Today, more than conditions are greatly production and underutilized areas in the world being China is putting much of the half of all new windmills in improved at one level they The long term consequences infrastructure. constructed in China 5 it nation’s invaluable cultural the world are produced by Curator’s Statement Curator’s Statement Curator’s 010 011 a Danish company and this issue. Not only in the engineering company Carl Bro The Projects Title: Magic Mountains Title: Performative Urbanism industry is not only making geographical sense, whereby and they have held workshops Title: Citywall Team: COBE and Team: CEBRA and Tsinghua significant contributions to a we all depend on the same in both China (twice) and in Team: TRANSFORM and University University cleaner environment, it is also resources and are affected Denmark (once). In addition, XAUAT City: Chongqing City: providing job opportunities, by the same pollution, but the Chinese professors have City: Xi’an Location: INTERMEDIARY Location: PERIPHERY innovation and economic also in the professional sense lectured at the two schools Location: CENTER The project sets out to explore The project has set itself growth for the entire country. in that no single discipline of architecture in Denmark The project attempts to the image of Chongqing as a the task of transforming a 6 can solve these problems and a Danish professor has explore the economic mountainous city in relation km2 industrial site, located alone. Thus, sustainable lectured at the four Chinese potentials of mass tourism to the creation of a new between the 4th and 5th ring urban development must be universities. as a means of supporting “green CBD”, located at the road in Beijing, into a green thought out in collaboration the preservation of historical confluence of the Yangtze and living environment for various between various peoples and sites, without the tourists the Jialing rivers. A number social segments of Beijing’s disciplines. destroying those sites and of so-called “5 minutes fast growing population. The the local environment. It cities”, accommodating project is concerned with the The creation of sustainable To meet global challenges does so by proposing a approximately 10,000 treatment of 10,000,000 urban development not only we need international and “meta-wall” around the inhabitants each, are spread m3 of contaminated soil requires new technologies, interdisciplinary collaboration. historic city wall of Xi’an. A across the sloping site facing left behind by the huge but also new policies The four projects, developed continuously differentiated the existing downtown industrial complex which which integrate economic, From March to August 2006 by the four teams, confront perimeter structure intended of Chongqing. These previously occupied the site; environmental, social and four offices, representing a wide variety of economic, to concentrate tourist programmatically mixed the implementation of Transit cultural concerns, and which some of the most promising environmental, social and accommodation, but also mini-cities are shaped like Oriented Development, water take into consideration young Danish architects, cultural issues related to rapid to provide public facilities mountains to reduce energy recycling and mixed housing individual and local have worked together and extensive urbanization for both the tourists and consumption by supporting for this new postindustrial conditions. Without such a with professors, PhD and in China. Furthermore, they the local population. In passive cooling in summer city. holistic approach to planning, postgraduate students from can be said to cover a broad addition, the project offers and passive heating in winter real sustainable solutions four of the most prestigious spectrum of urban situations an environmentally friendly time. They are interconnected are not likely to occur. But Chinese Universities. as they describe a cross- transportation system by an intricate system of we are not only in need of The project teams, each section through ”urban China” located in a green buffer zone bicycle and pedestrian new solutions. More than consisting of one Danish – from its historic center in between the two “walls”. paths, and a well-functioning anything else, there is a need office and one Chinese Xi’an, to the new CBD across public transport system for creativity and imagination university, have developed the river from the existing to reduce the need for car to set the spark for new proposals for sustainable downtown in Chongqing, to transportation. visions for sustainable urban urban development in the the postindustrial periphery development. four Chinese cities of Beijing, between the 4th and 5th ring Chongqing, and road of Beijing and beyond to The Collaboration Xi’an. They have been advised the postmodern subcity 30 Sustainable urban by and received consultancy km outside of Shanghai. development is a global services from the Danish Curator’s Statement Curator’s Statement Curator’s 012 013 Title: Shanghai Subcity The Results team managed these 1. UNDP China 2005 7 Team: EFFEKT and Tongji CO-EVOLUTION has primarily differences and how they 2. Henk Bekedam, WHO representative University been a learning process. One managed to combine China 2006

City: Shanghai of the things we have learned local knowledge and low- 3. Global Footprint Network 2005 Location: BEYOND is that there is no simple or tech solutions with cutting The project attempts to single answer to the question edge expertise and future 4. World Bank 2005 reinvigorate Shanghai’s of “how to improve people’s technology. 5. Qiu Baoxing, Chinese Vice Minister of decade old strategy of living conditions without Construction February 16 2006

reducing the population exhausting the very resources This collaboration has formed 6. People’s Daily Online, October 10 density within the city core. needed to sustain a better the basis for long-term 2005

It does so by proposing a life?”. But that there is an relationships between the 7. In Biology, Co-evolution is the mutual combination of ”super-nature” almost infinite number of participants. Thus, it is our evolutionary influence between two species that become dependent on each and ”super-urbanity” in the possible solutions. hope that the exhibition is not other. (Wikipedia) suburban district of Jiading, merely the end product, but located 30 km outside of The collaboration has part of an on-going process, Shanghai. Thus changing the enabled the exchange of in effect a starting point for image of this postmodern different experiences, ideas further collaboration. themepark-like city, which and knowledge between already includes a Formula the participants, thus The curator team, 2006 One race track, several major helping to develop individual car manufacturers, and both competences and mutual a “German” and an “English” understanding. But the town, to give it a broad appeal collaboration has also posed for a metropolitan population. its own challenges in the The project taps into the form of different cultural existing but largely unused values, working methods and infrastructure and proposes a professional interests. These large infotainment park about differences can be seen sustainable transportation. as the source of problems, but they can also be seen as the fuel of creativity. We need to acknowledge and take advantage of these differences if we are to create a sustainable future for all.

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