Post-Oil City at Gateway City Arts in Holyoke

Post-Oil City at Gateway City Arts in Holyoke Saturday and Sunday 12pm - 4pm, Sept 1 - Oct 31, 2013
Other times by appointment: Michael DiPasquale ([email protected])

Post-Oil City UMass Amherst
Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning (LARP)
@ Gateway City Arts, Holyoke MA
Sept 1 - Oct 31, 2013
For more information contact: Michael DiPasquale ([email protected])

At a time when more than half of the world’s population is living in cities, any solution for dealing with the effects of climate change and the end of development based on

fossil fuels has to take city planning into account. The exhibition “Post-Oil City: The History of the Urban Future,” presents innovative projects in Asia, Africa, and America that address urgent questions: How will the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy affect the process of urban planning and the city? How will the use of renewable energies affect urban metabolism and the politics of sustainability and mobility?

“Post-Oil City” is as much about the future as it is about the past. As indicated by the exhibition’s subtitle—“The History of the Urban Future”—every vision of the future is based on a vision of the past. By contrasting 11 current projects in the field of sustainable urban planning with 9 past ones, the exhibition aims to show that many of today’s developments have their roots in the urban utopias of mid-20th-century modernism. Today, urban planners are returning to these concepts and adapting them to the challenges posed by climate change, a limited supply of fossil fuels, economic recession, and global systemic crisis. Urban planning provides a laboratory for social as well as ecological change. Some experiments discussed in “Post-Oil City” are Masdar City (Abu Dhabi), Xeritown (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, renaturalizing New York’s High Line, and building a network of electric cars with battery switch stations in Israel. Though different in method and scope, the projects presented in “Post-Oil City” all have something in common: they exemplify the combination of reason, innovation, and flexibility that we’ll need to make our cities and planet sustainable for the future.

11/03/2013

UMass Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning (LARP) wants to thank everyone that visited the Post Oil-City exhibit at Gateway City Arts in Holyoke. We are currently packing it up. Next stop: Washington, DC.

09/04/2013
Sneak peak....
08/23/2013

Sneak peak....

If you haven't been there yet, check out Gateway City Arts at 92-114 Race Street, Holyoke 01040.
04/03/2013

If you haven't been there yet, check out Gateway City Arts at 92-114 Race Street, Holyoke 01040.

Before coming to Holyoke, the Post-Oil City exhibit will be shown in Toronto, Canada, beginning May 1, 2013
04/03/2013

Before coming to Holyoke, the Post-Oil City exhibit will be shown in Toronto, Canada, beginning May 1, 2013

04/03/2013
04/03/2013

Testing out our page today, pardon our dust.

04/03/2013
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