Expo Venue Subsequent Utilization And Sustainable Development

With the development for150years, the World Exposition (World Expo) has already been an Olympic Grand meeting of economic, scientific and cultural communities. How to utilize the opportunity of World Expo to promote the city's development and exert the maximum effect of the World Expo venues after the Expo, how to apply the concept of sustainable development into post Expo growth would become the most important issue for the host country. This essay uses the follow-up utilization of the World Expo venues as the starting point, gives the example and summary of the typical cases from previous World Expo venues utilization and from the perspective of the concept of sustainable development to analyze these cases about their actual gains and losses from the follow-up utilization of the venues and conducts the discussion about sustainable utilization of Shanghai World Expo venues.The development of World Expo was from initial no conscious about re-use World Expo venues then gradually found that the utilization of World Expo venues had important effect for the host city and country's city construction and economy and then consciously and gradually focus on ecological and environmental protection in the Expo venues construction and follow-up utilization, etc. with the sustainable development and concept of environment protection to be reflected in the design of Expo venues. Advanced design concept, reasonable construction norms, flexible and universal construction structure and renewable materials use make the way of re-use the venues more plentiful. The significance for the utilization of Shanghai World Expo Venues in post Expo period and redefine of the functions are from two parts, one is it could utilize the opportunity of Expo's host and the venues' characteristics to promote the city's update and transformation that would drive the Expo site and the surrounding areas' economic vitality and make the city's connotation to be improved. On the other hand, use the Expo venues' follow-up utilization as the exemplary effect could make the concept of sustainable development to be expanded in-depth and lasting in city construction and other areas.Despite Shanghai World Expo has already closed, the research on World Expo venues' sustainable development will be continued.