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The City Is Ours review – will vertical forests and smart street lights really save the planet?

Source
Guardian (UK)

Publication Date
2017-07-14

Can something as messy and complex as the issues surrounding mass global urbanisation be squeezed into a popular exhibition? It is a challenge Ricky Burdett attempted in his 2006 Venice architecture biennale, and ended up bamboozling many visitors with a dense slew of diagrams and statistics, which felt like a geography textbook stuck on the wall. It is something tech giant Siemens have also tried, in their Crystal visitor centre in east London’s Royal Docks, but the result has the inevitable whiff of a corporate showcase.

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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jul/14/the-city-is-ours-review-museum-of-london