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TheCityFix.com: Shanghai’s 2010 World Expo Exposes Challenges for China’s Cities
Originally posted on TheCityFix.com: Cities in China are “becoming ever less habitable,” and their future will depend on an “urban awakening” that includes the Chinese government’s support of public participation in urban planning and decision-making, says Zhang Song, a professor at Tongji University’s College of Architecture and Urban Planning, in a two-part interview on chinadialogue. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
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