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By Xu Wenwen |
July 14, 2010, Wednesday
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WORLD Expo representatives of 26 showcase cities around the world have gathered in Hangzhou and agreed to form a loose alliance, the West Lake Initiative, promoting exchange, cooperation and urban best practices.
A meeting and salon last Friday attracted 40 delegates of representatives cities that are exhibiting their solutions to urban issues in the Expo's Urban Best Practices Area (UBPA). The session was held at Hangzhou's Xixi National Wetland Park.
The Expo theme is "Better City, Better Life," and this is the first year the Expo has featured an area showcasing best practices about particular issues. This UBPA contains more than 60 cases from around the world.
Cities at the Hangzhou event, called the Hangzhou Salon, included Venice (Italy), Izmir (Turkey), Osaka (Japan), Alsace, (France), Geneva (Switzerland), London (UK) and Bremen (Germany). Hangzhou is showcasing its use of urban waterways.
Pavilion directors discussed ways to improve communication and shared their own experience in solving urban problems. They signed the West Lake Initiative to form a UBPA city alliance.
"The salon is an opportunity for cities at the Expo to carry on interurban diplomacy," says Huang Jianzhi, deputy director general of the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination. "This initiative will boost communication and cooperation among cities, extending beyond the boundaries of the Expo Park and the six-month duration of the event."
The salon was organized by the Expo bureau and the Hangzhou municipal government. After the event, Hangzhou arranged for pavilion directors and delegates to see Hangzhou's urban creativity and see how the city harnesses the "five waters" of the city - rivers, canals, streams, lakes and the sea - to improve urban life.
Anna Laura Govoni, director of the Venice Pavilion in UBPA, says the Hangzhou Pavilion at the Expo not only features Chinese cultural elements but also uses new ways to express water, especially the giant wall featuring 500 photographs of smiling faces of people around Hangzhou's bodies of water.
Meral Goban, director of UBPA exhibition of Izmir, says his city's bay had been polluted throughout the last century and Hangzhou's methods of self-purification and eco-filtering were useful.
A meeting and salon last Friday attracted 40 delegates of representatives cities that are exhibiting their solutions to urban issues in the Expo's Urban Best Practices Area (UBPA). The session was held at Hangzhou's Xixi National Wetland Park.
The Expo theme is "Better City, Better Life," and this is the first year the Expo has featured an area showcasing best practices about particular issues. This UBPA contains more than 60 cases from around the world.
Cities at the Hangzhou event, called the Hangzhou Salon, included Venice (Italy), Izmir (Turkey), Osaka (Japan), Alsace, (France), Geneva (Switzerland), London (UK) and Bremen (Germany). Hangzhou is showcasing its use of urban waterways.
Pavilion directors discussed ways to improve communication and shared their own experience in solving urban problems. They signed the West Lake Initiative to form a UBPA city alliance.
"The salon is an opportunity for cities at the Expo to carry on interurban diplomacy," says Huang Jianzhi, deputy director general of the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination. "This initiative will boost communication and cooperation among cities, extending beyond the boundaries of the Expo Park and the six-month duration of the event."
The salon was organized by the Expo bureau and the Hangzhou municipal government. After the event, Hangzhou arranged for pavilion directors and delegates to see Hangzhou's urban creativity and see how the city harnesses the "five waters" of the city - rivers, canals, streams, lakes and the sea - to improve urban life.
Anna Laura Govoni, director of the Venice Pavilion in UBPA, says the Hangzhou Pavilion at the Expo not only features Chinese cultural elements but also uses new ways to express water, especially the giant wall featuring 500 photographs of smiling faces of people around Hangzhou's bodies of water.
Meral Goban, director of UBPA exhibition of Izmir, says his city's bay had been polluted throughout the last century and Hangzhou's methods of self-purification and eco-filtering were useful.
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