Events

6 Nov 2014

18:00-19:30

Exhibition Zone D & E 1/F, AIT Building, CUHK

Anthony Mackay

Anthony Mackay is an architect with many years of experience of urban planning both at Milton Keynes and as Atkins lead designer for Songjiang and other city developments in China.

Free

Ms Olivia Cheung at 3943-1027 or oliviacheung@cuhk.edu.hk

In 2001 the first satellite city at Songjiang near Shanghai was initiated in an international urban design competition. This lecture traces the underlying ideas which created the winning design and led to its full realisation over the ensuing years and assesses the urban planning messages which materialised from the design and implementation process. As will be shown, the intentions of the design team were rooted in the historic precedents of early Mediterranean examples and the Garden City tradition of English new towns. How this approach met the development led planning world in China will be analysed and the lessons from this will be exposed. The lecture will ask questions about how urban communities are formed and sustained and use examples to illustrate how workable solutions can be arrived at. The multi-layered nature of a large city and the macro systems which are necessary to support the population and its needs can seduce urban planners into dealing with structures and forms at the expense of the human scale needs of communities. Anthony Mackay is an architect with many years of experience of urban planning both at Milton Keynes and as Atkins lead designer for Songjiang and other city developments in China.

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