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09.09.2013 General News

Post Oil City Exhibition @ Goethe-Institut

By Daily Guide
Elizabeth Ofosu Agyare, Minister for Tourism, Culture and Creative ArtsElizabeth Ofosu Agyare, Minister for Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts
09.09.2013 LISTEN

An exhibition of photographs dubbed 'Post Oil City' that presents innovative projects in Asia, Africa, and America will on Wednesday September 11, open at the Goethe-Institut in Accra.

With more than half of the world's population living in cities, the exhibition aims at tackling the issue of climate change and its effects on urban life while making it an issue for continuous discussion.

The show addresses urgent questions on how transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy affect the process of urban planning and how the use of renewable energy affect urban metabolism and the politics of sustainability and mobility.

'Post-Oil City' contrasts 11 current projects in the field of sustainable urban planning as it points to the fact that many of today's developments have their roots in the urban utopias of mid 20 th  century modernism.

Today, urban planners are returning to these concepts and adapting them to the challenges posed by climate change, limited supply of fossil fuels, economic recession and global systemic crisis.

Some experiments discussed in 'Post-Oil City' are Masdar City (Abu Dhabi), Xeriton (Dubai) and the NEST project in Ethiopia. Other examples of urban experimentation featured in the exhibition modify existing structures, creating a public transportation system in Curitiba's inner city, re-naturalizing New York's High Line and building a network of electric cars with battery switch stations in Israel.

The exhibition ends on Monday October 7.
 

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