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CO-EVOLUTION Xi'an, China - first prize  
Xi’an is the most important historical centre in China. The historical city centre is surrounded by a city wall marking the border between ancient China and the new China emerging on the other side. Besides being affected by high levels of pollution, chaotic traffic and constant demands for improvements in general living-conditions, the city is also under pressure from steadily growing mass-tourism. The project "Citywall" proposes a new city wall around the existing historic one – a 14 km wide compactly-organized architectonic “belt”, providing transportation, accommodation, parks and squares, information centres etc. This belt will constitute a new infrastructure featuring light railways to minimize travel-time and replace the thousands of taxis now crowding the inner city and polluting it with noise and fumes. Citywall will sustain the image of a dense inner city while addressing the problems of noise and pollution.