China Daily

Liu Yugie offers and considered and compelling analysis of the state of architecture in China today, and asks if "is China a playground for international architects or an abused testing ground for bad design?"

Banks in China have stopped accepting loan applications for property in the country's second- and third-tier cities in an effort to curb inflation.

This debate from China Daily offers a point-counterpoint over whether Chinese cities should be embarking on major subway building projects.

Dense cities, argues Daniel Garst, are shaped like a pyramid, with the most density in the middle and sloping sides. Beijing, on the other hand, has developed more like a circus tent, with density at the sides but single-story homes in the middle.

Chinese cities are destroying their architectural heritage as they rush to urbanize, according to Shan Jixiang, head of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage.

A new 350kph train connecting Zhengzhou and Xi'an debuted Saturday, cutting a 6 hour train ride down to less than 2 hours.

The City of Shanghai has signed on to a proposal from the Walt Disney Company to build a Disneyland theme park in Mainland China.

With some of the its cleanest air in decades, Beijing is warming up to some of the pollution-cutting regulations officials have enacted during the Olympics. Some may become permanent.

To stem the loss of farmland to development, the Chinese government is raising taxes on non-farmed arable land by 500%.

Bike lanes will be required for all new roads built in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, according to government officials. The city is hoping to get more people out of cars and onto bikes.

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.

To encourage more motorists to take advantage of public transit, the city is planning to build free parking lots near new transit stations.

Plans for the Chinese capital's metro system fall just shy of 350 miles of track over 19 lines, which would surpass London's Underground by 2020.

An exhibition has opened in Beijing, highlighting the city's attempts to revamp their city planning in preparation for the 2008 Olympics.

After years of Beijing's growing middle class buying new flats on the city's outskirts, long commutes are encouraging people to move back into the city's center.

With private car ownership increasing, can the bicycle making a comeback in China?

With one of the densest central urban cores in China, Shanghai officials have decided to spread out its growing population in new satellite suburbs.

While the Beijing-Shanghai line has long been scraped, plans for a line from Shanghai to Hangzhou are still in play.

Aggressive steps were taken by China to restrain soaring housing prices and discourage real estate speculation.

An unchecked building blitz in China's largest cities is destroying the landscape of historic cities.