Kansas City Design Center hosts Concrete Dragon lecture on Thursday evening, October 30th · Oct 22, 10:38 AM
2008 Annual Lecture and Open House
On Thursday evening, October 30, 2008, the Kansas City Design Center’s annual open house will feature a special lecture by Thomas J. Campanella, author of The Concrete Dragon: China’s Urban Revolution and What it Means for the World.
The event begins at 5:30pm with an open house featuring work by past and current students, as well as brief presentations about upcoming Design Center projects. Prof. Campanella’s lecture will begin promptly at 6:30pm.
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Prof. Campanella will shed light on this extraordinary chapter in world urban history. His presentation surveys the driving forces behind the great Chinese building boom, traces the historical precedents and global flows of ideas and information that are fusing to create a bold new Chinese cityscape, and considers the social and environmental impacts of China’s urban future.
Thomas J. Campanella teaches and writes about landscapes, urban form and the design of cities. He is associate professor of urban planning and American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a fellow of the UNC Institute for the Arts and Humanities.
His past books include Republic of Shade: New England and the American Elm (Yale University Press, 2003) and Cities From the Sky: An Aerial Portrait of America (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001). He is also co-editor, with Lawrence Vale, of The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster (Oxford University Press, 2005).
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