New History
City 

City infrastructure for Suzhou

The task of the workshop is to design the urban infrastructure of Suzhou. In the last hundred years, we have seen the modernisation of the city. Almost all cities are changing very fast to meet the new living needs of people. Some problems have arisen in the modernisation of those cities with long history and old culture. Modernisation has to be accompanied by new and old exchanges. People have encountered problems in the compromise between traditional culture and modern life. The central question is how do we move forward and bring traditional culture into the future, not just to lock it up in museums?
We should review the whole process of forming a traditional culture in the city, from finding, thinking, trying to form historical accumulation and finally producing a recognised culture. On this basis, we will make new searches, new thinking and new attempts to accumulate history in the future of culture.