Reality of Urbanization Catching up to the Dream
China’s ambitious urbanization plan is getting results: the country now has 102 cities...
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Bandurski on the Villages Within China’s Cities
At The New York Times, Patrick Boehler speaks with China Media Project’s David Bandurski...
“Masters of the People”: China’s New Urban Poor
In Dissent Magazine, Jeffrey Wasserstrom interviews political scientists Dorothy Solinger and Mark...
“Jing-Jin-Ji” Megalopolis Set to Be Xi’s Signature Project
Last month, China’s state media reported that the National Development and Reform Commission...
‘Once the Villages Are Gone, the Culture Is Gone’
As part of a continuing series on urbanization in China, Ian Johnson reports for The New York...
City Government Backs Hutong Revival
Oliver Wainwright reports for the The Guardian that Beijing Design Week architects have carried...
Beijing’s Blind Criticize Poorly Planned Pathways
An illustrated report by Chris Luo at South China Morning Post highlights Beijing’s...
Ghost Towns: No Place To Live If There’s No Work
Government efforts to urbanize China's population by building new towns are failing due to a lack of local jobs; one of the many newly constructed towns, Tieling, remains empty because residents cannot find employment: Urban...
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...
Urban Planners Build Support Through Weibo
In China, where government officials often have the final say on city projects, urban planners are using Weibo to make their voices heard by the public. From Abby at Global Voices: According to Southern Weekly [zh], there are...
Old Building Restoration Taking a Hold in China
Starting from the reinvention of Dashilar, a historical neighborhood in Beijing, innovative architects are racking their brains to balance city development and cultural preservation. From Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore at The Los...
Parking Space Race Too Costly for China's Car Owners
China Daily reports that parking provision has failed to keep pace with the explosion in car ownership, driving prices for parking spaces to surreal heights: The price for a parking space has hit a record 400,000 yuan...
China to Create Largest Mega City in the World with 42 Million People
The Telegraph reports on a plan proposed by Chinese urban planners to combine the nine cities of the Pearl River Delta into the world’s largest metropolis: The “Turn The Pearl River Delta Into One” scheme will...
Zhang Song: China’s Urban Disease (1)
China Dialogue translates an interview in Southern Metropolis Daily with urban preservation expert Zhang Song about the Shanghai Expo and its impact on the city: Zhang Chuanwen: For the first time, the theme of the World Expo is...
Mega-City Plans For Hong Kong – Vaudine England
Apparently not content to let the land between Hong Kong and Shenzhen continue to lay fallow, government-connected planners have issued a new report suggesting the two cities be combined into a metropolis of 20 million people. From the BBC: Only then can Hong Kong be one of the world’s great cities, argues a research report […]
Shanghai’s Subway System Moving Ahead at Full Throttle – Mitchell Landsberg
With China’s economic boom, Shanghai “is on its way to owning the largest urban rail mass-transit system in the world.” Mitchell Lansberg also indicated in his report why China can always clear the barriers in the way when it decides to do something. From Boston.com: …In China, labor is cheap, the land belongs to the […]
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