"China and the Crisis of the Infrastructure"
Chicago Architecture Foundation
224 South Michigan Avenue
October 3, 2007, 6:00PM

In the next twenty years, it is estimated that over 200 million Chinese citizens will move from rural to urban areas. In simple arithmetic terms, this would entail building ten new cities of one million people each year. How does country supply water, food, electricity, schools, hospitals, transportation, waste recycling and disposal, and other urban necessities for what is becoming, on a global scale, the largest urban migration in human history? Without sustainable design, what are the implications for the world's climate and already strained energy reserves? Harry Francis Mallgrave, Director of the International Center for Sustainable New Cities at the Illinois Institute of Technology will lead a panel discussion of these issues with local planners, engineers, and architects who are currently working on new cities in China and elsewhere.