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Reflections at the Close of Shanghai World Expo 2010 – part 2

November 16, 2010 – 8:00 pm

This is the second of a two-part post on the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. The first can be read here.
…In Expo’s final week, people seemed determined to ward off the meta-question of “what’s it all for?” by concentrating on the mechanics of the Expo breakdown. The newspapers were full of speculations about the fate of [...]

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Reflections at the Close of Shanghai World Expo 2010 – part 1

November 10, 2010 – 2:30 pm

This is the first of a two-part post on the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.

Shanghai World Expo 2010 will probably to go down in the history books as one of the most successful world’s fairs ever. The Chinese government was aiming for 70 million visitors; by the time Expo closed on 31st October, they’d reportedly had [...]

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Reading the urban public spaces of China

July 8, 2009 – 3:50 pm

 

The last two decades debates on the future of public life and public spaces have been markedly western-oriented, negativist and raising often questions: does public space still matters for our public life?
To counter these views, I would like to offer a different and non-western perspective for the discussion. Here, I will talk about the case [...]

By Patricia Simoes-Aelbrecht | Posted in Public space | Also tagged , , , | Comments Off