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The Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center () is located on
The Exhibition Center was built as part of the re-development of parkland at the edge of People's Park and around
The centerpiece of the exhibition is a huge
People's Square
People's Square is a large public square in the Huangpu District, Shanghai, Huangpu District of Shanghai. It is south of Nanjing Road (West) and north of Huaihai Road (East).
People's Square is the site of Shanghai's municipal government head ...
, Shanghai
Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...
, adjacent to the municipal government building.
The Exhibition Center is a six-story building, with two basement levels, which displays Shanghai's urban planning
Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, ...
and development. The focus of the exhibit is a large scale model of the entirety of urban Shanghai, showing existing buildings and approved future buildings. Other exhibits relate to Shanghai's history and planned development, including smaller scaled models focussing on particular areas of interest such as the Bund
The Bund or Waitan (, Shanghainese romanization: ''Nga3thae1'', , ) is a waterfront area and a protected historical district in central Shanghai. The area centers on a section of Zhongshan Road (East Zhongshan Road No.1) within the former Shang ...
. The Exhibition Center also has space for temporary exhibitions with a wide range of subject matter.
Building
The Exhibition Center was built as part of the re-development of parkland at the edge of People's Park and around People's Square
People's Square is a large public square in the Huangpu District, Shanghai, Huangpu District of Shanghai. It is south of Nanjing Road (West) and north of Huaihai Road (East).
People's Square is the site of Shanghai's municipal government head ...
in the 1990s and 2000s. The Park and Square together occupy what was once the Shanghai racecourse, and today still make up one of the largest open spaces in central Shanghai.
The building was designed by architect Ling Benli of the East China Architecture Design & Research Institute (ECADI), as a harmonious balance to the Grand Theatre, another contemporary building at the other end of People's Square. The Exhibition Center is high, has a white aluminium panel cladding and a symbolic membrane structure roof.Warr, Anne: ''Shanghai Architecture'', The Watermark Press, 2007,
Exhibits
The centerpiece of the exhibition is a huge scale model
A scale model is a physical model which is geometrically similar to an object (known as the prototype). Scale models are generally smaller than large prototypes such as vehicles, buildings, or people; but may be larger than small prototypes ...
of the city of Shanghai, showing all existing and approved buildings. Visitors can view the model from alongside or ascend to a gallery running around it for views from above.
The model is intended to represent the entire city, including all planned developments. However, a few support pillar
A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression (physical), compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below. In other words, a column i ...
s penetrate the scale model. This means certain areas are missing from the model, and some views of the model are obscured by the columns.
Alongside the model is a small theatre room housing a 360° screen. The room plays a video giving the impression the viewer is flying through the Shanghai of the future, viewing notable locations including some of the Shanghai Expo 2010
Expo 2010, officially the Expo 2010 Shanghai China, was held on both banks of the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China, from 1 May to 31 October 2010. It was a major World Expo registered by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), in the t ...
pavilions.
See also
*Urban Planning Society of China The Urban Planning Society of China (UPSC) (), voluntarily incorporated by urban planners across the People's Republic of China in 1956, is the only legally registered academic organization at state level.
Aims
UPSC is devoted to organizing interna ...
*Panorama of the City of New York
The ''Panorama of the City of New York'' is an urban model of New York City that is a centerpiece of the Queens Museum. It was originally created for the 1964 New York World's Fair.
Early history
Commissioned by Robert Moses as a celebratio ...
Kirk A. Denton, ''Exhibiting the Past: Historical Memory and the Politics of Museums in Postsocialist China'' (University of Hawaii Press, 2014), pp. 250–56.
References
External links
* {{Shanghai Buildings and structures in Shanghai Culture in Shanghai Architecture museums in China Urban planning in China 2000 establishments in China Museums in Shanghai Urban planning museums Huangpu District, Shanghai