People's Architecture
	BIO  |  QUOTE  |  PRESENTATION     RANDALL CRANE I illustrate how the Chinese people have their own idea about how they are going to manage the nuclei of their cities with this graphic of Beijing; it is a large city with an expanding footprint, pretty dramatically over time, and where in the periphery the density is still very high. Sprawl in this context, Beijing, doesn’t mean the same thing as we talk about it in Europe or in the United States. One other problem the Chinese people are facing is transportation. As everything is growing very quickly, in terms of population as well as in income, the amount of traveling that is taking place is even increasing even faster. This is a global pattern; the population goes up by ten percent, the trips go up with 15 percent, for an extended period of time. So you end up with a congestion which is really out of line with the population growth rate. Next to this, the actual length of those trips is also speeding up. Randall Crane, 3X3 FORMAL | INFORMAL, New York, May 16, 2006