The economic boom in China (over 10% annual increase in GNP for about 15 years) is producing a building boom. The Beijing Olympics, Shanghai, as a world city (again), and booming Guangdong, adjacent to Hong Kong, have been building, often hiring Western architects and planners. The growth spans the country, even the far East Xinjiang. China has ten times the number of cities over one million in population than the US has. In 30 years, the countrywide number of cities has gone from 200 to over 700.
Dr. Thomas Campanella, author of The Concrete Dragon: China's Urban Revolution and What It Means for the World, speaks. Campanella is professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Campanella is co-editor of The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster (2005).
Cosponsored by the Northwest China Council, hear Campanella speak at Powells Books, W. Burnside 7:30PM Free
