Planning for a Chinese Century?
Video from the National Building Museum
Presenter(s): Yan Huang, Wang Jun, Dennis Pieprz, Paul Goldberger (moderator)
Date Recorded: April 22, 2008
Duration: 01:28:05
Sponsored by: The Home Depot Foundation
Investigate China’s plans for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and the tension between cultural preservation and the creation of new “green” buildings. The panel features Yan Huang, acting director, Beijing Planning Commission; Wang Jun, journalist who has written extensively on preservation issues and author of The Story of a City; Dennis Pieprz, president, Sasaki Associates and author of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Green Master Plan; Paul Goldberger, architecture critic, The New Yorker (moderator). For the Greener Good lecture series is presented by The Home Depot Foundation.
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