China
Driving With Mr. Zhu
One American journalist rides along with members of China's new car owning class as they discover the thrill of the open road.
China's Maglev Extension Revived?
While the Beijing-Shanghai line has long been scraped, plans for a line from Shanghai to Hangzhou are still in play.
Hong Kong's Big Air Pollution Problem
A new study shows the city's air quality ranks below New York, London, Paris, and even Los Angeles.
U.S. City Seeks Chinese Labor & Expertise To Rebuild After Katrina
Frustrated with slow progress, a Mississippi Gulf Coast city is considering importing hundreds or thousands of Chinese laborers and materials to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina
The Scar Inflicted On China By Coal Mining
Coal mining in northern China is ravaging many of its villages. Mining goes on without regard to the environmental destruction it causes and the devastating effects on China's rural villages.
Sliver Of Chinese Land Diminishes As Deserts Encroach
Deserts on each side are moving in on one of few agriculturally viable pieces of land in Northern China's Minqin county. Thousands have been displaced as sands engulf land and the food it once grew.
China Wants to Keep 'Kingdom of Bicycles' Status
More Chinese are buying cars, but the government urges them to keep on cycling.
The Double-Edged Sword Of Coal In China
Coal usage is transforming China into an industrial nation at an alarming cost to both the Chinese people and the world. A new coal plant built using antiquated technology goes up almost weekly. [View the video, "China's Dark Cloud".]
Chinese Government Publishes Review Of Recent Environmental Policies
The State Council Information Office publishes a white paper entitled "Environmental Protection in China (1996-2005)", which "gives a systematic introduction to the unremitting efforts made...in environmental protection over the past ten years."
China takes measures to curb soaring housing prices
Aggressive steps were taken by China to restrain soaring housing prices and discourage real estate speculation.
Comparing Growth In China And India
The Financial Times presents an interesting comparative analysis of growth policies and past trends in China and India and comments on their future impacts.
China's Housing Headed For Serious Deflation?
An astronomical vacancy rate and prices that are far from affordable have prompted government action.
China's Looming Talent Problem
As the country's economy booms, the number of prospective college- and graduate school-educated employees has not kept up.
Land Use Efficiency And Farmland Preservation In China
China is land poor. Only about one-third of its total land area can be utilized productively for agriculture. Several measures have been introduced with the aim of protecting farmland, especially farmland with the greatest production potential.
China's First LEED-certified Building
Beijing's new 'green' ministry of science building is China's first to pass the stringent, globally-recognized LEED certification.
China Attempts To Reduce Population, Consumption
First there was the "one-child" rule. Now China attempts to do to consumption what it did to population growth -- stem it, in this case by raising the "consumption tax".
Chongqing: The Biggest City You've Never Heard Of
There has been little to equal the speed and extent of the development of the Chinese city of Chongqing, which is growing so rapidly, a population equivalent to that of Luxembourg is added each year.
China's Housing Boom Fizzles
Home sales have come to a near standstill in Shanghai, whose 20 million residents account for two percent of China's population, but 20 percent of the country's property value.
China's 'New Socialist Countryside'
The Chinese government looks to develop rural infrastructure, but what about the political voice of millions of countryside peasants?
China's Non-Existent Eminent Domain Protections
A rise of new money and power groups in China has widened the gap between rich and poor, urban and rural.
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
City of Rosemead
Rutgers University, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
One Hundred Miles
Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY)
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
City of Cambridge
Montrose County
The Pocatello Development Authority
