Ideogram

India Cultural Waste:

Colonization/ Post-Colonization Globalization: Economic Growth in Asia Transforming Tradition City To Modernization City
Asia has Been in the grip of relentless precess of building, on a scale that has probably never been seen before. By Rem Koalas

Asia

Convergence to Contemporary City Extreme Environment :

1979-1990: Political Policy: Opening Economic Reform
2001 Olympic Bid

Architectural heritage destruction : Old city fabric Hutongs

All the same

Identity lost

China

1949 Chair Mao: Destroyed Old to establish New China

in

Beijing

Debris Waste: Demolishing Waste Very fast pace in construction Huge amount of population shift
22 New Stadiums 15 Renovated Facilities 2 Ring Roads 142 Miles of New Infrastructure 8 New Subway Lines 252 Start-rated Hotels 40 km of Cleaned Rivers 1 Million New Trees 83 Km of Planted Green belt New Airport

2008 Beijing

Development/ Mechanical Demolition

Migrant Workers move in Business move in Existing resident move out

1.5 Million Beijing residents have been relocated to suburban new towns as part of a Modernization Policy The Beijing Citys population swelled to o cially 18 million ( other 7 millions unregistered migrant workers)

Mega-grade Architectural Icons Economic Bloom

Others

De nition : Waste
Waste, verb Physical Waste: Demolition Debris
1. To lay waste, devastate, ravage, ruin (a land or town, its inhabitants, property, etc.). 2. Law. To destroy, injure, impair, damage (property); to cause to deteriorate in value; to su er to fall into decay. 3. To consume, use up, wear away, exhaust, diminish (a thing) by gradual loss; to reduce in numbers (a family); to wear out (clothes); to sell out (an edition); to evaporate (a liquid). 4. To consume or destroy (a person or living thing, his body, strength) by decay or disease; to cause to pine, emaciate, enfeeble; to undermine the vitality or strength of. Cultural/ Social Waste: Identity Lost 5. a. To destroy, annihilate, put an end to (something immaterial, e.g. sin, sorrow). b. re . To ruin one's prospects. 6.To spend, part with, diminish one's store of (money, property); to spend, pass, occupy (time); to get over (a distance in travelling). Oxford English Dictionary

Highway Expansion Tra c Congestion Air pollution Housing shortages Income gap increases Displacement of locals to out skirt

De nition: Metabolism
a. is the set of chemical reactions that happen in living organisms to sustain life. These processes allow organisms to grow and reproduce, maintain their structures, and respond to their environments. b. are the system by which forms are able to live, to construct themselves and grow, to dynamically maintain themselves over time , and to reproduce. by Michael Weinstock

Living Organism
Respond to Environment

Cell

Grow / Reproduce

Maintain

Metabolism Wastes/ Excretes: are substances left over from excretory processes, which cannot be used by the organism (they are surplus or have lethal e ect), and must therefore be excreted Respond to Environment

City forms are material constructs that are composed of a spatial array of dwellings, a pattern of streets and public spaces together with di erentiated buildings of varying sizes associated with the regulation of energy and material ow, and the extension of metabolic network across the surrounding territory. by Michael Weinstock

Living City
Respond to Environment

Unit

Development: Grow / Reproduce

Maintain Living

Destruction : Metabolism Waste