Shanghai
Urban Planning Exhibition
The largest urban planning model in the world
Location: Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center,
opposite to Shanghai museum, which was open in Feb.28, 2000.
Theme of Shanghai urban planning exhibition
City, People, Environment & Development.
Five sections exhibition:
· Shanghai 1930s Road
· Preface
· History &culture: depict the recent development history
of Shanghai.
· Urban planning achievement,record the achievement
of shanghai in recent 50 years especially in1990s.
· Integrated planning portrays the future 20 years
in Shanghai.
Shanghai 1930s Road
The architectures in that road are all in 30s style. It was called
city within city by president of Swiss Confederation Adolf
Ogi.
Trams, old style letter-box, cart, hydrant, tobacco store are rebuilt
to simulate traditional road scenery in Huaihai road in 1930s. And you
will lost yourself in the toll of the custom, movie music, the voice
of the carter and sound of great waves of Huangpu river on the road
of 1930s.
Historical monument: preface of the exhibition. Both of
the old style and new style symbolic architures are reflected in the
central sculpture. You could touch the old and the new Shanghai from
these exhibition.
Historical & cultural city: recalls you of Shanghais
yesterday. In the 700 years, Shanghai developed from a fishing village
to todays metropolitan.
Shanghai has over 70 sites of historical interest and cultural relics
under the protection of the state and the municipal governments, which
best represent the distinctive characteristics of Shanghai regional
culture.
Integrated planning exhibition:A model at 1:500, covering
about 600m2, vividly demonstrates the design plan for the future Shanghai.
As
ties between nature and urban residents, a 400- to 500-meter flower
bridge crossing the Huangpu River will be set up specially. Green plant
"corridors" vertical to the river will stretch from the river
bank to the city's central region with a connotation of linking the
past, present and future of Shanghai.
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