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Skyscraper Museum: Guided Tour

Saturday, March 7, 2009 from 11:00 AM to 2:00 AM (ET)

New York, NY

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Ticket Type Sales End Price Fee Quantity
Guided Tour Ended $9.00 $0.99

Event Details

Join us as we visit the Skyscraper Museum for a guided tour of the exhibit, "Vertical Cities: Hong Kong, New York."  After the tour, we will eat, drink, 'n merrymake at a nearby restaurant.
 
Exhibit Description (summarized from the Museum's website, see full-length description here http://www.skyscraper.org/WHAT'S_UP/CURRENT/exhibits.htm)
 
We'll learn about the amazing parallels during the major development booms and defining moments in the vertical identity of New York in the 1920s and 1960s and Hong Kong in the mid-1980s-1990s and today.   

There will be photographs, architectural drawings, models, computer animations, and films, showing lots of stuff, including the following:
 
Similarities Between Hong Kong and New York City that effected their vertical growth
 
-- Evolved from colonial ports into dominant centers of international finance and commerce 
-- During their respective major development booms, each city grew to its peak populations of around eight million, ascended skyward, and became ever more dense
-- Development was largely entrepreneurial and speculative, producing their wildly competitive and heterogeneous skylines
 
Differences Between Hong Kong and New York City that effected their vertical growth
-- Differences in geography, history, and culture
-- Today, Hong Kong has surpassed New York in terms of the number of high-rises, population density, efficiency of mass transit, and government master planning
 
 

When & Where



Skyscraper Museum
39 Battery Pl
New York
New York, NY 10280

Saturday, March 7, 2009 from 11:00 AM to 2:00 AM (ET)


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