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China's new pathway to urbanization will benefit world: UN officials
Publication date: Wed 9 Jul 2014
Document type: Article
UN officials said Tuesday that China's efforts to follow the new pathway to sustainable urbanization, which is human-centered and environmentally friendly, will benefit both the country and the world...
China unveils urbanizatization plan 2014 - 2020
Publication date: Sun 16 Mar 2014
Document type: Article
China on Sunday unveiled an urbanization plan for the 2014-2020 period in an effort to steer the country's urbanization onto a human-centered and environmentally friendly path.
Property market strategy will recognize local needs: Li
Publication date: Thu 13 Mar 2014
Document type: Article
A regulatory strategy for the property market, recognizing local conditions and aspects, will be implemented, Premier Li Keqiang said on Thursday. The government will ramp up building of publicly...
Chengdu to deepend reform in an all-round way
Publication date: Fri 28 Feb 2014
Document type: Article
Chengdu Municipal Committee approved deepening the city's reform in an all-round way and laid out its plan for economic and social reform during the third plenary session of the twelfth municipal...
Africa's Urban Revolution
Publication date: Thu 9 Jan 2014
Document type: Book
The facts of Africa’s rapid urbanisation are startling. By 2030 African cities will have grown by more than 350 million people and over half the continent's population will be urban. Yet in the minds...
Comparative urban governance of developing creative spaces in China
Publication date: Tue 26 Nov 2013
Document type: Research paper
Habitat International, Volume 41, January 2014, Pages 99–107. The promotion of creativity is a crucial element in China's attempts to upgrade its economic structure. In this context, creative spaces...
Who Will Plan Africa's Cities
Publication date: Sun 1 Sep 2013
Document type: Research paper
Africa’s cities are growing – and changing – rapidly. Without appropriate planning, they will become increasingly chaotic, inefficient and unsustainable. In many countries, planning legislation dates...
Shanghai set for rapid bus system
Publication date: Tue 18 Jun 2013
Document type: Article
Shanghai will soon have its first Bus Rapid Transit system.
Industry Special: Evonik promotes tech-driven urbanization
Publication date: Mon 8 Apr 2013
Document type: Article
China's accelerating urbanization will create many business opportunities in a variety of fields while posing new challenges to city planners, said a senior executive of a foreign company....
Property tax pilot extension may be based on willingness
Publication date: Tue 26 Mar 2013
Document type: Article
The second batch of cities for the pilot property tax program will probably be announced this year, 21st Century Business Herald reported on Tuesday.
Expert suggests caution over 'fragmented' urbanization
Publication date: Thu 21 Feb 2013
Document type: Article
Hundreds of new cities. Millions of new urban residents. Surging consumer demand as a result. But one economics professor says the governement still needs to take a hard look at how exactly the...
Chinese influence on urban Africa
Publication date: Mon 12 Nov 2012
Document type: Article
Based on economic complementarities acknowledged by both parties, and in line with its “Going Out” strategy, China’s influence on African urbanisation has evolved since 1990 from mainly...
Megacities: redefining "urban"
Publication date: Mon 26 Dec 2011
Document type: Article
By 2050, 75% of the world will live in cities. Faced with this inexorable shift, humanity's goal should be to manage our future in a metropolis, not to succumb to it, writes David Pilling.
