Severe Flood Damage Traced to Corruption, Overbuilding
Flooding across central and southern China has killed more than 100 people and submerged countless...
urban development
David Bandurski on “Dragons in Diamond Village”
Award-winning writer and independent film producer David Bandurski is the editor of the China...
Luigi Tomba: The Politics of Privatized Housing
In an interview with Ian Johnson at The New York Times, political scientist Luigi Tomba of...
Bandurski on the Villages Within China’s Cities
At The New York Times, Patrick Boehler speaks with China Media Project’s David Bandurski...
Can China’s Dying Villages Be Saved?
China’s urban population has grown faster than any other country’s and is currently...
Can China’s Ambitious New Urbanization Plan Succeed?
China’s leadership has put much energy into renewed urbanization efforts that will have 60...
China To Invest Over $162 Billion On Shantytowns
Bloomberg reports that as part of renewed urbanization efforts to place more than 60 percent of...
Relocated Poor Face Major Challenges in Cities
Agence France-Presse in Anshun (via The South China Morning Post) reports that, in the process of...
New Urbanization Plan Faces Hurdles
Since coming to power, China’s new leadership has been touting the benefits that increased...
The Anatomy of a Shanghai Land Grab
For Marketplace, Rob Schmitz tells the story of an elderly woman, Xie Guozhen, and her husband who...
Turning Chinese Propaganda Against Itself
Wired profiles French photographer Eric Leleu and his project Subtitles—an examination,...
Migration in Shaanxi Complicates Farmer’s Lives
Ian Johnson reports for a New York Times series on mass migration in China that a 200 billion dollar project will relocate 2.4 million farmers from the Shaanxi mountains to towns that have been “built from scratch on...
From Sand to Skyscrapers: Inside China’s Newest City
As Beijing plans to move hundreds of millions into China’s cities, Tom Phillips reports from Lanzhou New Area, a new city under construction in Gansu province for which 700 mountains were condemned to be flattened: Its...
Mass Migration Planned For China’s Rural Population
A New York Times video and a report by Ian Johnson state that the Chinese government plans to move 250,000,000 people from farms to housing in cities in the next 12 to 15 years with a goal to place 70% of its citizens in urban...
700 Mountains Flattened for New Desert City
Late last month, premier-in-waiting Li Keqiang declared that boosting the country’s urban population, which passed 50% of the total a year ago, was China’s most promising avenue for further development. From Caijing:...
Chinese Developers Wary at Land Auctions
As criticism of land grabs and forced demolitions continues, the Wall Street Journal reports that despite signs of a rebound in the property market, Chinese developers are skittish at land auctions: A number of cities, including...
An Architect’s Vision: Bare Elegance in China
The New York Times’ Jane Perlez profiles architect Wang Shu, whose selection as China’s first Pritzker Prize winner in February received a somewhat mixed reaction from some of his countrymen. In awarding this year’s...
How Building Shanghai Up is Bringing It Down
At TIME’s Ecocentric blog, Kate Springer discusses the problem of subsidence which, according to a recent government report, affects more than fifty cities and around 50,000 square miles of land across China. The issue is...
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