新的城市模型 – 試驗場 中國 | 超大城市的願景 (插曲 4)

Urbanisation is like a tidal wave and urban planning is lagging behind. It tries to free up space for housing and control traffic. But are there models that try a different approach? The city of Ordos, built in the desert, is known for its ghost town. Settlements that were built as whole satellite towns for people who did not come, so far. Not yet.

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In the scattered wastelands they are planning what should actually be there first, the central place for this city of the future. Where the new art museum dares to show its contours against the faceless skyscraper steles, the pulsating public heart of Ordos will one day beat.

Or they will have European architects design entirely new megacities on the drawing board. The German firm GMP builds all over China. Their plan for the “drop city” of Lingang is an attempt at a daring synthesis between the Chinese future and European urban planning of the early 20th century.

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Urbanisation and megacities are comparable to major natural phenomena. It’s all about contributing and rising to the crucial challenges of the here and now. This 4-part series on the new architecture in the Asian region is about concepts of a new city, necessary, unavoidable and existentially urgent due to the migration of millions of people to Asian cities. It is about answers to the question: How do we want to live in the 21st century? This voyage of discovery through Asian cities in search of answers to the existential questions for civilisation in the 21st century takes us to Japan and China.

Original Title: 超大城市的願景 – The Asian Experiment
A film by Michael Trabitzsch
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