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TheCityFix.com: Is There a Future for Human-Scale Chinese Cities?
(Originally published on TheCityFix.com)
James Fallows of the Atlantic recently blogged about “today’s enormous, expanding Chinese cities,” comparing the more intimate architecture of Shanghai to the sprawling concrete slabs in Beijing.
“This is not a ‘which do you like better?’ discussion,” he emphasizes.
Rather the question is why the look and feel of Beijing seem so clearly to [...]
Beijing Olympic Village is world’s first green neighborhood
Read the original press release here.
The Beijing Olympic Village is the first Olympic Village to achieve certification under the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system. The 42 buildings that housed 17,000 athletes from around the world earned a Gold rating, one step below the highest Platinum rating. The residential complex is [...]
AmCham Shanghai: Sustainability Conference
Please see my 30 Boxes Calendar for this listing.
Enter the Green Dragon
China’s Built Environment Value Chain Goes Green
AmCham Shanghai’s Sustainability Conference
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Grand Hyatt Shanghai
Tickets Now on Sale at the AmCham Office!
Shanghai Centre, Suite 568 1376 Nanjing Road West Shanghai, China 200040
Phone: (8621) 6279-7119 Fax: (8621) 6279-7643
E-mail:amcham@amcham-shanghai.org Website: www.amcham-shanghai.org
How does building “green” in China [...]
Chinese copycats: pirates or hero innovators?
A note from Erica:
Here’s an interesting departure from our regularly scheduled blogging about the environment and the Olympics, which often dominates the coverage here on RespChi.
Beijing-based blogger Van Yang writes about CSR in the context of intellectual property rights, something which I briefly mentioned last year, in response to an article by Cornell University Matt [...]
The China Business Network: URBN Hotel & Resorts
Christine Lu of The China Business Network brings us another great podcast about URBN Hotels & Resorts, an eco-friendly boutique hotel and resort company based in Shanghai. The company’s first luxury hotel, a 28-room property catered to design-focused “urban world travelers,” bills itself as being China’s first carbon neutral hotel.
URBN Hotels’ vision is to expand [...]
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