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Impressi' ons <br /> ROM AN ARTIST AND A SCHOLAR <br /> September 5, 20112 <br /> 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM <br /> FedEx Global Education Center <br /> Join us for a lecture by Dr. Yan Song <br /> followers by a brief presentation by artist <br /> Barbara Tyroler.We'll close the evening <br /> URBANIZATION iN CHINA: with a reception and art viewing. <br /> Critical Issues in an Era of <br /> Rapid Growth <br /> Lecture with Dr.Yan Song <br /> BEIJING IMPRESSIONS <br /> Associate Professor <br /> Department of City&Regional Planning Artist Talk With Barbara Tyroler <br /> Director The Beijing Impressions <br /> Program on China Cities series by artist Barbara <br /> Tyroler is a visual <br /> China is one of the fastest urbanizing response to daughter <br /> countries in the world in the first Samm Tyroler-Cooper's <br /> decade of the twenty-first century. poetic interpretation <br /> New residential and business high-rise of Chinese writer Lin <br /> buildings,giant industrial parks,urban Bars personal memoirs, <br /> infrastructure projects,and urban particularly the excerpt <br /> renewal developments are taking place "Illusion"Presented <br /> at an unprecedented pace and scale, in large,blended <br /> drastically reshaping China's urban photographs,these <br /> landscape. figurative landscapes <br /> serve to reflect a <br /> Not surprisingly,this rapid urbanization people and city in <br /> process,along with ongoing social and cultural transformation, <br /> economic transitions,has presented synthesizing the <br /> great challenges for Chinese urban ancient with the contemporary,the literal with the <br /> planners and public policy makers.This metaphoric. <br /> talk identifies and interprets a range This lecture and art exhibition are hosted by UNC <br /> of issues that have emerged in China's Global. The artist received'funding from the Orange <br /> urbanization process. County Arts Commission. <br /> ' U I 1 GLOBAL . . M ;~asp <br />