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ICCASU 2015 Video, PPTs and photos are now online in Chinese, English and French
Publication date: Tue 5 Jul 2016
Document type: Presentation
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...
How China used more cement in 3 years than the U.S. did in the entire 20th Century
Publication date: Tue 24 Mar 2015
Document type: Research paper
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...
Playing the Long Game: China’s Investment in Africa
Publication date: Mon 20 Oct 2014
Document type: Research paper
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...
Water and sanitation provision in eThekwini Municipality: a spatially differentiated approach
Publication date: Wed 10 Sep 2014
Document type: Research paper
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,...
Introduction to the China Lab Guide to Megablock Urbanisms
Publication date: Sun 3 Aug 2014
Document type: Summary report
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...
Experts recommend desalinated water for Beijing
Publication date: Thu 24 Jul 2014
Document type: Article
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.
Promote new urbanization model
Publication date: Wed 11 Jun 2014
Document type: Article
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...
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...
BRICS lessons in (un)sustainable urbanisation
Publication date: Wed 27 Nov 2013
Document type: Article
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...
Improving the competence of construction management consultants to underpin sustainable construction in China
Publication date: Tue 26 Nov 2013
Document type: Research paper
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...
China vows to improve urban sewage
Publication date: Thu 19 Sep 2013
Document type: Article
The Chinese government on Wednesday approved a draft regulation on improving urban sewage systems as part of efforts to raise the quality of urbanization.
Guangdong to ban relocation by threats
Publication date: Thu 25 Apr 2013
Document type: Article
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 to increase efforts to alleviate poverty
Publication date: Wed 27 Mar 2013
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.
The Case of Angola and China's Post-War Investment
Publication date: Wed 13 Mar 2013
Document type: Presentation
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...
Top municipalities up to 75% urbanized
Publication date: Wed 15 Aug 2012
Document type: Article
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...
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