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• 11.19.08 Architecture & Urban Planning in China: Shanghai infrastructure construction to accelerate
  
  "Shanghai will accelerate urban infrastructure construction with a total investment of 500 billion yuan (US$73.22 billion) through 2010. The massive capital injection was a way to boost internal demand and increase the chances of stable economic growth amid the global financial turmoil, the city's construction and transport authority announced recently. These infrastructure projects are mostly related to traffic improvements and the construction of new Metro routes, tunnels and transport hubs in readiness for the Shanghai World Expo in 2010..."  read on
  
  posted in architecture, china, economics, environment, geospatial, living, population, shanghai, transportation, urban planning
• 11.09.08 Autodesk University China 2008: Second Day
  
  "The second day of Autodesk University in China featured several breakout sessions targeted at specific industries. The event also provided a platform for Autodesk to champion for few initiatives toward more efficient, innovative, and sustainable design, like Digital Prototyping, Building Information Modeling (BIM), and Digital Cities. For the Digital Cities initiative, AU China brought Doug Eberhard -- Sr. Director and Industry Evangelist for the Geospatial Business Unit -- to share Autodesk's vision to create a collaborative environment around intelligent high-fidelity 3D digital models of existing and proposed infrastructure."  read on
  
  posted in architecture, art, autodesk, china, design, environment, geospatial, information technology, innovation, shanghai, software, urban planning
• 11.05.08 Autodesk Announces Incheon, Korea as Second City of its Digital Cities Initiative
  
  "Autodesk today announced it is working with the Incheon Free Economic Zone (IFEZ) and the Incheon Urban Development Corporation (IUDC) to cooperate in the creation of Asia's first Digital City for Incheon, Korea -- the 'Tomorrow City' in Song-do City. Autodesk has designated Incheon as the second pilot city of its Digital City initiative, after announcing Salzburg, Austria in July."  read on
  
  posted in architecture, autodesk, design, geospatial, information technology, interaction, population, socialism, urban planning
• 09.13.08 Living in China: 60% of Chinese will live in cities in 20 years
  
  "Huang Wenqing grew up in a remote village in China's Anhui province, where his family were pig farmers. Today he is a team manager in a car components factory in the suburbs of Beijing. People like him have been driving the country's fast urbanization, a process which will see six out of every 10 Chinese people living in cities in 20 years, according to a top development planning official..."  read on
  
  posted in china, environment, living, population, socialism, trends, urban planning
• 08.10.08 Living in China: Shanghai’s Rising Population Challenge
  
  "The increasing population of Shanghai is the biggest challenge for the city's management and the government should launch effective strategies to deal with it, experts at an urban forum said before the World Population Day. There were 13.34 million residents in 1990 and the figure climbed to 18.58 million last year. The average annual population increase over the 17 years was 300,000..."  read on
  
  posted in china, living, population, shanghai, trends, urban planning
• 07.13.08 Autodesk Announces Salzburg, Austria, as First Pilot City of its Digital Cities Initiative
  
  "Autodesk announced recently that it will be working with the city of Salzburg, Austria, as the first pilot city in Autodesk's new Digital Cities initiative. The Digital City initiative is Autodesk's technology designed to provide a collaborative environment for visualizing, analyzing, and simulating the future impact of urban design and development at a citywide scale..."  read on
  
  posted in autodesk, design, european union, geospatial, information technology, innovation, software, tourism, urban planning

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