via WordPress http://ift.tt/2eDwpJd
(CNN)When it comes to architectural innovation, some of the most significant changes to urban skylines over the past half-century have occurred in Asia.
Economic booms and globalized trade have transformed cities like Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong and Shanghai, rendering their soaring glass and steel skylines as recognizable as other world metropolises like New York, London and Paris.
Asia has lead the world in urban planning over this time and presently boasts seven of the world’s top ten megacities — classified as places with populations of 10 million people or more.
Like their global cohorts, the success of these municipalities has often been reflected in how ambitious and spectacular their built artifices are.
Developments like the Yujiapu Financial District in Tianjin, China, Ordos in Mongolia, and Naypyidaw, the new national capital of Myanmar, were all created virtually from scratch, founded on grandiose urban visions of monumental proportions.
Once a means to symbolize power and authority, all three cities now sit virtually empty, years after their construction.
The region faces other significant urban planning challenges ahead. Existing and emerging cities will be confronted by continued overcrowding, traffic congestion, pollution, a growing lack of affordable housing, and a lack of efficient transportation, to name just a few.
Remedying these problems is complex, costly, time consuming, and often proves to be without clear and attainable solutions.
But by tackling these problems — without the shackles of existing legacy systems — these cities and their architecture will surely continue to inspire.
For desperation often encourages invention, and these inventions, and the new designers behind them, will pave the way for future architectural innovation across the globe.
Read more: http://ift.tt/2eDVFRp
The post From megacities to ghost towns: How Asia’s changing skylines inspire the world appeared first on MavWrek Marketing by Jason
No comments:
Post a Comment