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Architecture & Urban Planning in China: Smart future showcased at Shanghai World Expo
With heavy coverage from newspapers and television, you may have become quite familiar with the theme of the Shanghai World Expo - "Better City, Better Life."[...]
Posted in China, innovation, trends Also tagged African, architecture, Arizona, Australia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Chicago, designer, energy, energy consumption, energy efficiency, Germany, Henan, Herman Kossmann, Illinois, Kadiogo, Lutz Engelke, Melbourne, Netherlands, Newspapers, Ouagadougou, Phoenix, Pudong, Puxi, Rotterdam, São Paulo, Shanghai, Shanghai Daily, Shanghai Museum, Shanghai World Expo, Sichuan, Song Jianming, The Netherlands, United States, Urban Development Projects, Victoria, Zhang Keqin, Zhengzhou Leave a comment
Living in China: Chinglish to get the axe in Shanghai for World Expo
Shanghai is looking to get rid of poorly translated English signs as it readies to welcome 4 million foreign visitors to next year’s World Expo.
Listen to Mary Newsom’s “The information Superhighway: Urban Renewal or Neighborhood Destruction?” talk at IDEA 2009
As a long-time practitioner of daily newspaper journalism who sees the economic model of the newspaper industry sinking (and broadcast journalism isn’t in much better shape), Mary looks into what will happen to cities if/when the mass media splinter. With all of the “new media” journalism: the emerging trends of crowd-sourcing, blogging, YouTube, Twitter and the general explosion of information available to people, this makes virtually anyone, a potential journalist. What are the implications for information, and for the dependability of that information?
Watch Thom Mayne’s “Architecture as Connection” talk at TED
Architect Thom Mayne has never been one to take the easy option, and this whistle-stop tour of the buildings he's created makes you glad for it. These are big ideas cast in material form [...]
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, Infrastructure, 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, Urbanization, Xu Zhongwei, Yu Lei Leave a comment
Watch William McDonough’s “Cradle to Cradle Design” talk at TED
Green-minded architect and designer William McDonough asks what our buildings and products would look like if designers took into account "all children, all species, for all time" [...]
Posted in China, consumer behavior, design, economics Also tagged architect, Cradle to Cradle, energy, energy conservation, energy consumption, energy efficiency, environment, Environmentalism, Ford, Green Building, Green Building technologies, Low-energy building, Nike, sustainability, Sustainable architecture, Sustainable building, Sustainable Design, United States, US government, William McDonough 1 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, Infrastructure, pollution, public utilities, Puxi, Shanghai, Shanghai World Expo, The World Bank, transportation infrastructure, Treaty of Nanking, Urban Development Projects, urban infrastructure Leave a comment
Architecture & Urban Planning in China: future cities to make small carbon footprint
Even as China undergoes one of the most rapid urban transformations in the world, the Chinese government is promoting sustainable development to curb the country's growing rate of carbon emissions, a World Bank urban specialist said in Beijing on recently [...]
Posted in China, economics, trends Also tagged architecture, bank, Beijing, Chinese Government, energy, environment, Greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas emissions, Gross Domestic Product, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, New York, Statistics, sustainability, sustainable, sustainable development, The World Bank, Urban Development Projects, urban infrastructure, Xinhua Leave a comment
Design, Technology & Urban Planning: Silos of Technology, Interoperability, and Digital Cities
There's an interesting article by Rob Colman in Green Business who chatted with Dan Campbell of the City of Vancouver and Geoff Zeiss about digital cities and how by enabling interoperability between architecture, engineering and construction design models such as BIM, telecom and public works network design, and gaming engines for video games, we can model cities holistically by creating 3D urban models that not only look good but offer the depth of information required to make real decisions [...]
Posted in design Also tagged 3D Visualization, architecture, Autodesk, BIM, City Planners, Civil Engineering, Digital Cities, engineering and construction, Geoff Zeiss, geospatial technology, mayor, online gaming industry, Realistic Visualization, simulation, Simulation Tools, sustainability, sustainable, sustainable development, Technology Innovation, Vancouver 1 Comment
Architecture & Urban Planning in China: the top 10 fast-developing cities in 2009