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The misty and beautiful sunset approached my horizons, here by the side of West Lake in Hangzhou. My breath was taken by its golden color, just ripe enough for me to pick if it were mango.

On the side, there were plenty citizens using the landside to enjoy the scenery and the cool wind.

People chatted; some playing chess, some young couples just simply enjoying their cotton candies, some just sat or read, kids playing around, and some senior citizens complete with their musical instruments are giving out free entertainment.

After my days in Shanghai, Hangzhou has offered a retreat and relieves of the old communal life of the Chinese. The blending of landscape and man-made curvy landside Read more

Our last day in Beijing was the day of my first encounter with the magic number of Chinese contemporary art. 798 Art District is the happening venue of Chinese art. With only a piece of paper scribled of the address and my limited Mandarin, we arrived at a cold mid day. The cold seeped through our thin jackets and the luggage that we carried did not help us to warm our shivering bodies.

The site was built as a complex of factories during the fifties and designed by engineers from Germany in Bauhaus style. At that time, chairman Mao Tzetung was in reign and he wanted Chinese industrial development to move forward in fast pace. Cultural Revolution had tried to convert Chinese society from agricultural to industrial based country to Soviet Union, and tried to develop ‘classless society’, where all people work in the same level as education and working ‘background’.

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Edited from Ariyanti (2008): “Themed Town, Thames Town” an unpublished article for Campus of Architecture and Urban Planning at Tongji University, Shanghai

It was a cloudy Saturday and our group of formerly 14 people has been reduced to 8 from the morning visit to Anting New Town. Exhausted, we found out that Thames Town is really far out from to the other direction, the only way to get there was with a cab, since our limited Chinese, we asked our friend to instruct the taxi driver how to get there. After another 40 minutes ride, we arrived at the compound, surrounded by fences, waterways and empty boulevards, the town was a place separated from its surrounding.

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Wenn Mann ein Gedachtnis hat, über die Benutzung auf ein Platz, die viele Bedeutung und Moglichkeiten haben, kann man nicht so weit denken besonders in Bonn, als der Markplatz. Die Bestehung des Markplatzes in ueberall Europa hat signifikan Bedeutung. Es ist der Platz für die Bürgern und gibt wichtigen Auswirkungen an der Stadt. Besonders in dieser 2000 jaehrige Stadt; Bonn. Der Marktplatz in Deutschentradition hat eine wichtige Rolle als urbanen Raum, kaum fuer polistische Mittel.

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Conclusion

As the examples each explain the differences and resemblances of the different types of festivities, I would like to point out here the lessons we can learn from the production of public space by these activities. Read more

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