With modern urban epicenters becoming more and more lively and populated, London’s Tate Modern Exhibition Global Cities looks at five major issues – size, speed, form, density and diversity – and their effects on ten major urban centers from Los Angeles to Mumbai, Shanghai, London, and others. The exhibition places comparative socio-economic and geographic data alongside video and photography by twenty artists and architects including Nigel Coates, Zaha Hadid and Patrick Schumacher, Fritz Haeg, Rem Koolhaas, Nils Norman and Richard Wentworth.
Having attended myself, I must say it was very impressive if only because the exhibition did a solid job of conveying the scale of the subject. This is about size and the Turbine Hall really helps too. Certainly worth the tube ride over.
Great write up! There are some wonderful photos on Fritz Haeg’s Edible Estates LONDON project
at the following link: http://www.fritzhaeg.com/garden/initiatives/edibleestates/london.html