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“Grad. Arhitektura i društvo”-Sao Paulo/“Cities. Architecture and society” -Sao PauloEventsThe Sixteen Megalopolisesreside in VeniceThe 10th International Architecture Exhibition, which takes place within the frame of Venetian Biennale,is dedicated to the cities, precisely to the sixteen megalopolises from all over the world, from MexicoCity to Tokyo. Experts, coming from fifty countries, will try to find solutions to the burning questions ofurban life in the 21st century in VeniceWritten by: Tanja JakovèevThe 10th International Architecture Exhibition whichwill take place from September 10 to November19 within the frame of Venetian Biennale will be,regarding many things, the most ambitious projectever.“Cities. Architecture and Society“ is the great themeof the exhibition, containing stories about no less thansixteen major mega-cities in four different continents:from Shanghai and Tokyo, over Sao Paolo, New Yorkand Mexico City, Johannesburg and Cairo to London,Barcelona and conurbation Milan-Torino, which all togetherhave more than 182 million inhabitants.That this year Biennale is seriously meant, confirms a factthat prior to the opening of the exhibition, on September6 a workshop held by Saskia Sassen will be organized,focusing on cities and city administration, with a mayorsof several mega-cities presented at the Biennale participatingin a debate. After that, video projections, photographs,films and three-dimensional graphic presentationswill try to feature the information on permanenttransformation of these mega-cities in social, economicaland cultural terms and all will take place at the centralspot of the whole event, in Corderie dell’Arsenale, aswell as a tenfold new architectonic and urban projectsthat are affecting the way in which these mega-citiesand their citizens live.A director of the 10th International Architecture Exhibitionin Venice, Mr. Richard Burdett, explaining the motivefor choosing this exceptionally complex, wide and inspiringtheme brought forth some simple data: “A centuryago, less than 10 percent of world’s population lived incities. Today, more than a half of world population livesin cities, and the 21st century is rightly estimated to bethe first truly urban era during which even to 75 percentand more of the population will live in large communities;much of it in mega-cities of over 20 million peopleconcentrated in countries undergoing rapid development– mostly in Asia, Africa and South America.In the same time, many Western and European citiesare shrinking, decreasing in the number of citizens andtrying to “redesign“ themselves during the post-industrialtime”, states Burdett, emphasizing that a main aim ofthe Exhibition is to mediate information and to provokea debate on the ways we shape the future of urban society.Taking into the consideration that the megalopoliseshouse enormous percentage of human kind, and39