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Definition of the main theme The theme of Expo 2010 is “Better City, Better Life,� representing the common wish of the whole humankind for a better living in future urban environments. This theme represents a central concern of the international community for future policy making, urban strategies and sustainable development. In 1800, 2% of the global population lived in cities. In 1950, the figure raised to 29%, in 2000, almost half the world population moved into cities, and by 2010, as estimated by the United Nations, the urban population will account for 55% of the total human population. The quest for a better life has run through the urban history of mankind. Through different sub-themes, Expo 2010 will create blueprints for future cities and harmonious urban life styles, providing an extraordinary educational and entertaining platform for visitors of all nations: [p.8] Blending of diverse cultures in the city [p.54] Economic prosperity in the city [p.106] Innovations of science and technology in the city [p.138] Remodelling of communities in the city [p.178] Interactions between urban and rural areas 7
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In the meantime, thanks to the rapid speed Ever since its birth, the city has been of information transmission and digital accommodating the co-existence of different technology today, more and more people are groups of people and different cultures, so brought to the awareness of the protection of the blend of diverse cultures is a special material and non-material heritages under scene in the city. In the process of urban threat. development, military conflicts, trade and For that matter, more and more city migration have led to and even driven the administrators have recognized that a collision and blending of multiple cultures, cultural strategy connecting the past with finally forming the unique style of each city. The style stems on the one hand from the [p.50] the future, facilitating the harmonious cocultural heritage and creative industries of existence of diverse cultures, and stressing the city, and on the other reflects the life style cultural identification, will make an integral and value orientation of city inhabitants of part of the master strategy of the city for all social sectors. sustainable development. Today, all countries in the world are paying more attention than ever to cultural freedom and cultural identity. In the climate of globalization, urban culture is subject to multiple impacts. For one thing, the prevalence of global or regional brands has led to the standardization of urban cultures, and the contact and collision between the relatively strong and weak cultures, between the foreign and the native cultures, and between the immigrant and the mainstream cultures cultures, have never been more intense due to the free flow of information and people. Cultural diversity also means a harmony between the past and the future. The city is a key locus for heritage conservation, but the desire for economic development and modernization tends to pose a threat to the survival of tradition and heritage in cities. 9
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The earliest cities had risen on the basis of bazaars and agglomeration effect has played a critical role in the economic development in the city as a driving power. [p.90] The urban economic prosperity may rely on its advantageous location, or its natural resources, or its human resources. In the age of knowledge economy, however, innovation [p.96] and entrepreneurship have become the core driving force for sustainable economic development in the city. The innovation potential of the city depends on its research capacities, and more importantly on the [p.102] creative interactions between people. Although closely connected with wealth of the city, entrepreneurship has for the most part derived from a cultural tradition that encourages risk-taking and business ventures. As innovation and entrepreneurship have to be carried out by people, the economic fate of the city depends on whether there are good work and living conditions to attract firstrate talents. In addition, good infrastructure facilities and consummate services will be a necessary support for economic prosperity in the city. city.Admittedly conflicts exist between economic development and environmental conservation.
In order to achieve the goal of sustainable development, many cities in the world today have adopted Recycle Economy as an important economic strategy. Recycle Economy advocates Reduction of resource consumption in production, Reuse of products, and Recycling of wastes (3Rs), aiming to achieve in the end a harmony between economic development and environmental well-being. In a word, economy in the future city will be more vigorous, and such vigor will come mainly from two sources: innovation and creativity of urban dwellers, and harmonious coexistence with nature.
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Today, when people observe the space A huge platform for technological through Hubble Space Telescope or reform advancement, the city brings together life through genetic engineering, they are various elements of innovation. The intensive more clearly aware than ever of their own communication among creative minds within limitations. Science and technology are not the city produces sparks of innovation, and omnipotent after all, and will not serve as a the research and production facilities in the tool or weapon for humankind to conquer city have at the same time helped to turn nature; instead, they should serve as a these sparks into technologies, and further catalyst for symbiosis between human beings into products and services that benefit and nature. humankind. Ever since the 20th century, In the future city, science and technology rapid technological development has, on the will play a more constructive role in the other hand, made extensive urbanization conservation of nonrenewable resources, in possible. Meanwhile, the enrichment and the efficient use of energies, in the protection improvement of material life are most clear of bio-diversity, and in the building of a and obvious in the city. While the dream [p.134] sustainable habitat models. In a word, science of flight has been a factual reality for just a hundred years, the flight vehicle invented and technology will take mankind back to by humankind has landed on Mars. People the embrace of Mother Nature. have benefited greatly from science and technology in their day-to-day life, in their ways of communication, in healthcare and in wealth accumulation. In the meantime, the revolution of material life has left clear watermark on people’s cultural life and spiritual pursuit.
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Definition of the subtheme [p.140] Communities are cells of the city, and [p.162] the most common form of space for life. Only healthy “cells� can make a healthy and harmonious city. The goals of cultural blending and economic prosperity are all attained in communities as most basic living [p.174] quarters.Construction and remodeling of communities in the city have always been the most urgent tasks of city administrators. It is the most lasting puzzle in the history of urban [p.144] development as to how poverty-ridden areas can be eliminated from the social map of the city. Today, the structural change of urban population in developed countries and the rapid increase of urban population in developing countries have made the puzzle even more disturbing. In the Millennium Declaration, the United Nations proposes the goal of Cities without Slums, aiming to achieve a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by 2020.Directed by the goal of sustainable [p.150] development, community remodeling in the city of the 21st century will entail the creation of balanced communities, and the [p.156] reduction or even elimination of gray or dark corners in the city.
A balanced community shall, by our definition, feature a reasonable structure of residents, reasonable housing ownership structure, sound infrastructure, congenial environment and sufficient employment and business opportunities. Communities in the future city will be featured by strong social cohesion, and a harmonious interaction with the city and other cells of the city. Man will always be at the center of the creation of better life in better communities.
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Definition of the subtheme [p.180] Ever since the city was born, urban and rural so as to regain competitiveness. A proper management of the flows of people, capital, areas have been mutually interdependent commodities and information between urban in terms of economy, social activities and and rural areas is the key to a harmonious environment. Country people have made and synchronized development of both the their living by selling their farm produce to city and the countryside. the city, while the prosperity of the city has At the moment, about a half of the global depended on the resources and demand from population is rural, and in Asia and Africa its hinterland. in particular, a large population is still The expansion of the city has placed a living in the rural areas. In light of the huge considerable burden on the rural area, divide between the city and the countryside consuming or even depleting land and other in developing countries, international resources in the countryside. New thinking organizations are urging people to harness in urban planning and new architectural and the linkages between urban and rural areas energy technologies will help to relieve the to reduce urban poverty and to improve rural burden to the greatest extent. At the same living conditions. time, the massive influx of immigration [p.200] With the urbanization, the boundary from the rural area will also pose a tough threat to city administrators. For one between the city and the countryside has [p.188] thing, the construction and renovation of kept fading away, and the rural-urban communities in the city will create a better relationship is getting closer. In some sense, living environment for the urbanized harmony in the future city will depend to population a great extent on an equally habitable and population, and for another, the construction [p.192] of small cities and towns will help to ease harmonious hinterland in the countryside. off the pressure of population growth and unemployment on big cities. Under the influence of globalization, agriculture in some countries has lost its competitive advantage. Sufficient interactions between the city and the countryside have become a necessity to help farmers diversify livelihood, or to remodel the production structure
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