Joan Busquets
Curated by the renowned architect and urban planner Joan Busquets, the Barcelona, the Metropolis of Cities exhibit has been on display all over the world, stunning audiences with its insightful, innovative approach to modern city planning and design. Starting in Barcelona, the exhibit made its way from Harvard GSD to the University of Illinois, and will now rest at Ryerson University.
The School of Urban and Regional Planning is promoting this wide-ranging planning exhibit that showcases how contemporary issues of the 21st century give shape to new urban forms. Concerns for the environment, energy, sustainable mobility, and social equity all require new urban strategies for the function and transformation of modern cities. This exhibit tackles a wide range of questions relating to the state of our world?s cities. What is the future of the traditional city and the modern districts constructed to date" What new urban forms are accommodating emergent innovative economies" What is the potential influence of the hypermobility increasingly promoted by global centres" What forms of economic and urban development are outside the extensive growth (of infrastructure and residence) that was the model in the 20th century"
Barcelona, the Metropolis of Cities forces audiences to confront the necessity of urban planning initiatives that create and repurpose infrastructures in modern cities; city infrastructures need to consider social urbanism, sustain...