China is a city on the rise, but it faces serious challenges as it prepares to host the next World’s Fair. Vast numbers of migrants are moving in. Infrastructure is outdated and workers are protesting. Chicago, host of 1893 World’s Fair, faced many of the same problems.

Worldview examines the legacy of the 1893 Columbian Exposition and the how 2010 Shanghai World Expo and Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Olympic Summer Games may affect their local populations.  

Robert Price is Worldview Arts and Architecture Contributor and Associate and Technical Director, Asia Region at Gensler, a professional architecture, design and planning firm.

Dick Longworth is Senior Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and Distinguished Visiting Scholar at DePaul University. He’s Author of Caught in the Middle: America‘s Heartland in the Age of Globalism. Dick is Former Foreign Correspondent for the Chicago Tribune.

And Paul Jaskot is Professor of Art History at DePaul University and Author of The Architecture of Oppression: The SS Forced Labor and the Nazi Monumental Building Economy. And he’s President of the College Art Association.