London- global cities and dinner at Dave and Adel's

Off today to the Tate to see the Global Cities exhibition. It is touring from the Venice biennale. I will let peter explain what it was about!

The exhibition was a smaller part of the complete biennale, but focused on the theme of the overall exhibition. It took 9 example cities including London, LA, Lagos, Mumbai, Cairo and compared them in terms of how efficient each city was. Not efficient in terms of how much power, but more aimed towards what is its density, how do people use the city, what affects the city structure and all that type of stuff. We were quite surprised that London has a density of about 3000 per square kilometer and reached its peak population in 1939, while Mumbai has a density of 34500 per square meter.

We hid in the Tate coffee shop for a while as the rain teamed down outside and then made a run for it. Off to Dave and Adele's for dinner. Nice stir-fry and then a movie.