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The Biennale grounds are divided into the Giardini, sprinkled with some 40 national pavilions, and the Corderie dell'Arsenale, a series of converted naval warehouses, with Burdett's "Cities: Architecture and Society" theme intended to operate pervasively. However, very few participating countries in the Giardini demonstrate that they are up to the challenge to quantify and qualify the city and society within their borders, instead preferring tongue-in-cheek installations, stage set interiors, or unfocused curation. But herein lay Burdett's own challenge, the Venice Biennale has always tended toward themes of architectural styles and trends over the social or the contextual. Past themes suggest the subtext of the biennale as a visionary event, able to forecast the winds of trend in architecture, such as "Next" in 2002 or "Sensing the Future" in 1996. This year, thankfully, has no such stylistic ambitions. In addition, what is significant about Burdett's theme is its scale, the scale of a city or a region instead of the scale of a building. And with astounding growth and rapid development worldwide in urban areas, the subject is both timely and, not surprisingly, complex.

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