The exhibition"Post-Oil City:The History of the City's Future"presents a host of innovative city planning projects in Asia,Africa,and the Americas.
The exhibition has been produced by the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations and curated by the architecture journal ARCH+.The English-language version of the exhibition will open in Yokohama on September 27 and run through October 8.
It will be part of the collateral events of the 24th World Congress of Architecture of the International Union of Architects in Tokyo.
How does a city change when transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable energies?What effects do renewable energies have on urban systems,sustainability,and mobility?These are some of the central questions addressed by Post-Oil City.Looking both to the past and to the future,the exhibition assembles eleven contemporary projects and nine historical references in the fields of sustainability,urban transit,and urban systems.
One insight from Post-Oil City is that todays ideas and achievements are built on modernisms urban utopias.Increasingly,planners are rediscovering solutions to urban problems public transportation,waste management,etc.developed during the 20th century and adapting them as answers to climate change,limited fossil fuel supplies,economic recession,and global systemic crisis.Urban planning has now become a laboratory for social as well as ecological change.
