Presentation given at 'Beyond the Global City: Visual, Verbal and Virtual Experiences' Colloquium

1. ASIAN ECOLOGICAL SUBLIME Beyond the Global City: Visual, Verbal and Virtual Experiences Dea van Lierop, University of Amsterdam London, 20-21 May 2011

3. WHAT IS THE ASIAN ECOLOGICAL SUBLIME?

4. FROM THE EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURAL SUBLIME TO THE AMERICAN TECHNOLOGICAL SUBLIME European Architectural Sublime, Arc de Triomphe. American Technological Sublime, Space Shuttle Columbia.

6. Asian Ecological Sublime European Architectural Sublime American Technological Sublime Space Shuttle Columbia Arc de Triomphe Masdar City

7. LOCATING EXAMPLES OF THE ASIAN ECOLOGICAL SUBLIME

8. HOW DOES THE ASIAN ECOLOGICAL SUBLIME TAKE SHAPE?

9. MASDAR CITY: ABU DHABI, UAE Clockwise from top: Aerial view of Masdar City Masdar City’s Main Street Masdar City Plaza

10. GUANGMING SMARTCITY: GUANGDONG PROVINCE, CHINA Computer-generated model of Guangming Smartcity. Farmers within a computer-generated model of Guangming Smartcity.

12. Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City (1898) Le Corbusier’s Contemporary City (1929) and Radiant City (1935) Frank Lloyd Wright’s Broadacre City (1935)

13. THE FUTURE OF THE ASIAN ECOLOGICAL SUBLIME (AND, WHY IT CAN ONLY EXIST WITHIN A COMPUTER GENERATED MEDIUM)

14. AN AVERAGE DAY IN THE REGULATED, HYPER-DESIGNED AND PLANNED GUANGMING SMARTCITY FOR AN ELDERLY MOTHER AND HER SON: