05 May 2010, Posted by Haibao in Countdown to Shanghai, 0 Comments

Pavilion of Urban Planet

The pavilion of Urban Planet displays cities as a source of both problems and solutions.  The pavilion, located in Zone B has two parallel spiral ramps which offers a good view of a 32-meter-diameter globe.  Its five sections explain how the development, sometimes overdevelopment, of cities produces ecological problems, and how people awaken to urbanization and environmental changes. The pavilion will have a ‘’Blue Planet’’, a huge globe which represents the earth in a poetic and metaphorical way, telling how cities, urban development and human behavior impact on the earth.   We will also be seeing the interesting short movie ‘’The Only Planet We Have’’, which tells about the interaction between cities, the earth and people.