Workshop Orientation 6/13-6/15

22 June 2009
in

Saturday 6/13: The 2009 summer workshop was kicked off by a group session with Erich Schienke and Melissa Rock of PSU, and Neville Mars of the Dynamic City Foundation, in which research methodology and objectives were discussed.

Sunday 6/14: A central axis tour led from the Beijing Planning Exhibition Hall and the newly-developed Qianmen, across Tiananmen Square, and through the Forbidden City. The afternoon lecture by Mary Ann Ray and Robert Mangurian was an excellent orientation to urban village life, through the lens of the B.A.S.E. Beijing experience in Caochangdi

Monday 6/15: A morning site visit to the mixed typologies of the Tsinghua University area--planned campus, supporting superblocks, and 6-story & row-house work-unit remnants from the Pencil Factory--and a round-trip ride on the Line 13 Subway oriented the workshop participants to both inner-city transformations and peri-urban conditions. A development north of the Huilongguan station was documented.