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Urban Planners and Policymakers Map Out Pedestrianization Proposal of Des Voeux Road Central (Complete)
HONG KONG, September 21, 2015 — Amale Andraos, Dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Donald Choi, Managing Director of Nan Fung Development, Eric Schuldenfrei, Associate Dean for Special Projects and Communications at the University of Hong Kong, and Paul Zimmerman, CEO of Designing Hong Kong discuss the vision and concepts behind the Des Voeux Road pedestrianizing proposal. The discussion was moderated by Aric Chen, Curator for Design and Architecture at M+. Jeffrey Johnson, Founding Director of Asia Megacities Lab, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, gives an overview presentation of the proposal and explains the concepts and inspirations behind as the opening. (1 hr. 7 min.)