26 April: Chinese Urbanism in Africa
China’s visible impact on urban development in Africa is substantial. One need only take a virtual bird’s-eye tour on Google Earth to catch a glimpse of some of the most impressive changes …
Until 23 March: Archizines in Shanghai
The critically acclaimed touring exhibition Archizines will be presented in Shanghai at the University of Hong Kong / Shanghai Study Centre. The show is prolonged until 23 March 2014. Archizines celebrates the …
23 November: Seminar Excessive Urbanism
EXCESSIVE URBANISM Seminar, launch party of Scapegoat Magazine Saturday, 23 November 2013, 3pm HKU/Shanghai Study Centre Cities have become an extremely hostile environment to live in. Permanent urban transformation, pollution and a …
16 March, 3pm: Opening ‘The Future of the Museum’
Following its fast pace of urbanisation and transformation, China has started the construction of museums at an unprecedented scale: roughly hundred museums per year have been built over the past years. These …
24 February: Seminar ‘Stock Market Urbanism’ / Magazine Launch
Bubbles and speculation are of all times. The 2008 financial crisis was largely caused by the subprime loan disaster in the United States. It turned out that housing was not anymore about …