China

In 20 short years, the country has become the second largest car market in the world, and is in the midst of a road building bonanza.

The city's government is requiring that high-ranking officials use transit at least one day a month.

China grants private individuals to own property. Experts say law recognizes power of growing middle class but does not add protections for farmers.

One Chinese lawmaker is claiming the coffee chain's outpost in Beijing's Imperial Palace Complex, a venerable symbol of American capitalism, is tainting the national culture that the site represents.

Protests and violence have erupted in China's rural areas, where many of the country's poorest people struggle to find jobs. The government has pledged to improve spending to help provide for the rural poor and improve access to public services.

With three sections, five doors, and a 300-person capacity, the "world's largest bus" has been unveiled in Shanghai. The new buses will be used for a planned bus rapid transit line in the city.

A new school master plan for the Western International School of Shanghai looks to create an entire urban environment geared toward children.

Many Chinese residents facing displacement are protesting the planned expansion of a high-speed magnetic levitation train in Shanghai. Others who won't be displaced are also opposed, fearing increased noise pollution and accidents.

A new law facing the National People's Congress of China looks to put in place massive land reform in the country that would essentially establish the right to private property. This legislation has been pushed forward by the central government.

With Chinese's new middle class embracing automobiles, gridlock in the capital is set to get a lot worse.

One county in China has been exempt from the country's controversial one-child policy for two decades. Additional rules about when parents may marry and have children have kept the county's birthrate lower than the national average.

The tremendous scale and pace of construction in China threatens to bulldoze over thousands of years of archaeological sites.

Even with widespread demolition of old buildings to make way for modern towers, the city still has more art deco buildings than anywhere else on earth. A new photo book hopes to inspire the city to preserve its rich architectural legacy.

As Shanghai becomes a new world-class business capital, the city struggles to keep up with its rapid growth.

With more than 300,000 new cars hitting the roads each year, the Chinese capital has a serious shortage of parking. The solution? More parking lots of course.

Cities like Linfen bear the ecological burden of China's massive, coal-fired economic growth.

More Chinese are abandoning their bicycles -- not because they now own cars but because the dramatic increase in automobile use is making city streets too dangerous for cycling. But cyclists are fighting back.

Gentrification and redevelopment threaten the historic homes and buildings in the former foreign settlement area of China's largest city.

French architect Jean Pierre Heim has proposed creating a semi-outdoor multimedia entertainment center in Shanghai -- a cinema, shopping center and restaurant all-in-one.

Intended to be one of 9 Shanghai suburbs evoking architecture and culture from other countries, the pseudo-Canadian "Maple Town" suburb bears little resemblance to its original plans.