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Planning for a Chinese Century?
Series: For the Greener Good
Presented By: Yan Huang, Wang Jun, Dennis Pieprz, Paul Goldberger (moderator)
Date Recorded: April 22, 2008
Duration: 01:28:05
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 was presented by The Home Depot Foundation.
