Video, PPTs and photos are now online from the 2015 International Conference on Chinese and African Sustainable Urbanization: A Canadian and International Perspective (ICCASU). The conference took...
China used more cement between 2011 and 2013 than the U.S. used in the entire 20th Century. It’s a statistic so mind-blowing that it stunned Bill Gates and inspired haiku. But can it be true, and, if...
China’s growth and appetite for foreign direct investment (FDI) has made Africa its largest investment destination, according to a new report written by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) for...
The rescaling of responsibilities in water governance in South Africa has enabled strong water services authorities, such as the eThekwini Water and Sanitation Unit (EWS) in eThekwini Municipality,...
Superblocks are the basic unit of China’s urban development, but they are also spatial instruments with social, cultural, environmental, and economic implications, operating between the scales of...
Technical difficulties may no longer be a barrier to using desalinated seawater in Beijing, experts said at a conference hosted by the China Association for Science and Technology on Tuesday.
The economic work conference of the Chinese central government held over the weekend set a new urbanization model as a sustainable driving force for China's economic growth, according to Beijing News...
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...
Some very dubious public policy lessons are being passed along within the Brazil-Russia-India-China-SA nexus. Durban's Luthuli International Convention Centre will ring with even more bad advice this...
Habitat International. Volume 41, January 2014, Pages 236–242. As a vital component of construction professional services (CPS), construction management consultancy is in nature knowledge-intensive...
The Chinese government on Wednesday approved a draft regulation on improving urban sewage systems as part of efforts to raise the quality of urbanization.
The use of threats of violence to force locals to relocate will be prohibited in Guangdong province, said a notice issued by the provincial government on Wednesday.
China will allocate more funds to lift its rural population out of poverty this year, with efforts focused on making education more accessible for the urban poor, said a top poverty releif official.
Paper presented by Allan Cain, Director, Development Workshop Angola, as part of the Urban LandMark Annual Conference on the theme Moving from Knowledge to Change, held on March 13-14, 2013 in...
China's top three municipalities of Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin have become advanced urbanized societies, according to the China Urban Development Report 2012. The report, released by the Institute...