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Living in China: Plenty of GPS potties, to keep Shanghai’s World Expo site clean
Next year's Shanghai World Expo will feature more than 200 of the world's most innovative pavilions filled with the most advanced technology and inspiring exhibits about modern urban life. But piles of rubbish, dirty surfaces and lack of potties would make a joke of the theme, "Better City, Better Life." [...]
Posted in China Also tagged architecture, environment, environmental protection, geospatial technology, GPS, Huangpu River, Illinois, Li Ye, oil, public services, public transport, Shanghai, Shanghai Daily, Shanghai World Expo, Toilet, tourism, United States, Urban Development Projects, urban infrastructure, Urbanization 1 Comment
China, Technology & the Environment: Emissions cut target “may hurt developing countries’ development”
The emissions cut target proposed by developed countries is "unfair" to developing countries, a Chinese expert said recently: Pan Jiahua, executive director of the research centre for sustainable development of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, made the statement in an interview with Xinhua at the Global Economic Symposium (GES 2009) held in Ploen Castle, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany [...]
Posted in China, economics, information technology, trends Also tagged Carbon finance, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Climate change, Developed Nations, environment, Environmental policy, Germany, Greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas emissions, Industrialization, Kyoto Protocol, Pan Jiahua, sustainability, sustainable, sustainable development, Urbanization, Xinhua 1 Comment
Architecture & Urban Planning in China: urbanization to create massive infrastructure investment
Some 300 million Chinese now living in rural areas -- the equivalent of the entire population of the United States -- will move into cities in the coming 15 to 20 years, said a senior Chinese official recently [...]
Posted in China, economics, trends Also tagged architecture, Beijing, Brazil, China Daily, Chinese Government, Chongqing, Demography, environment, Independent cities, india, James Jao, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, public utilities, Settlements, Shanghai, South Africa, United States, Urban Development Projects, Urban geography, urban infrastructure, Urban Patterns, Urban Planning, Urbanization, Xu Zhongwei, Yu Lei Leave a comment
Living in China: urban population exceeds 600 milion with rural income’s yawning gap
China's urban population surged to 607 million with an urbanization rate of 45.7 percent at the end of 2008, a social researcher revealed recently [...]
Posted in China, economics, trends Also tagged Beijing, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Demography, Development, Economic Development, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Liaoning, Living In China, media reports, New Year's Day, population, Rural Area, Shanghai, Shenyang, Sichuan, sustainable development, Unemployment, Urban area, Urban geography, Urban studies and planning, Urbanization, Xinhua, Xinhua News Agency Leave a comment
Architecture & Urban Planning in China: World Bank injects $200 million for China’s urban environment
World Bank's Board of Executive Directors approved a loan to China --$200 million to support the Shanghai Urban Environment Project [...]
Posted in China, design, economics Also tagged Asia, bank, environment, environmental infrastructure, Hiroaki Suzuki, pollution, public utilities, Puxi, Shanghai, Shanghai World Expo, The World Bank, transportation infrastructure, Treaty of Nanking, Urban Development Projects, urban infrastructure, Urban Planning Leave a comment
Autodesk Helps United States Spend Stimulus Dollars
Autodesk’s Richard Humphrey and Terry Bennett spoke with New England Cable Network about how visualization and simulation technology is being used to help address shovel-ready transportation network projects [...]
Posted in design, economics, software Also tagged 3D Visualization, Autodesk, BIM, Data Visualization, Information Visualization, Infrastructure Design, Infrastructure Modeling, simulation technology, Simulation Tools, transport network, Transportation Development, transportation infrastructure, visualization, visualization software, Visualization Technology 1 Comment
Autodesk featured on NPR’s “Virtual Shovel-Ready Projects Get Stimulus Money” Morning Edition
Shovel-ready projects in the U.S. and around the world are relying on Autodesk infrastructure software [...]
Posted in economics, information technology, innovation, software Also tagged Autodesk, Infrastructure Design, Infrastructure Modeling, software, United States 3 Comments
Autodesk and the Clinton Climate Initiative Join Forces to Support the Building of Sustainable Cities
As a world leader in 2D and 3D design and engineering software, the most important contribution Autodesk can make to address global sustainability challenges is to provide customers with innovative technologies. A new tool being developed will help cities manage their greenhouse gas emissions levels [...]
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Autodesk Announces Vancouver as Third City of its Digital Cities Initiative
Autodesk announced that it has designated Vancouver as the third pilot city of its Digital Cities initiative. A Digital City provides a way for the public, city government, construction and business communities to combine mapping, building, civil engineering, and utility information into an accurate city model that can be used to simulate the future impact of decisions at a city-wide scale [...]
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Architecture & Urban Planning in China: the top 10 fast-developing cities in 2009