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The Promise of Chinese Eco-cities

Posted by Saleem Ali of University of Queensland (Australia) on November 23, 2012
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  I would like to thank Peggy Liu, Christine Chen and Phoebus Xu of the Joint US-China Collaboration on Clean Energy (JUCCCE) for facilitating my visit to Tianjin Eco-city in September, 2012. Special thanks to the administration of the Eco-city for the tour and presentation provided during the visit. As the new Chinese leadership takes…

10 Green Ways to Improve Our Cities

Posted by Brian Clark Howard of National Geographic in Road to Rio+20 on August 2, 2012
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We’ve been writing a lot recently about how cities can transform themselves by going greener, from rooftop gardens, to buildings made of shipping containers, or even making entire floating cities. (Learn more at our new innovation hub.) At the recent Aspen Environment Forum, Rohit Aggarwala said most major world cities have plans to address climate change…

A Not So Suburban Suburbia: Possibilities for Our Urban Future

Posted by Brad Scriber of National Geographic Magazine on June 3, 2011
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There are nearly seven billion people on the planet, and more than half of them live in urban areas. Close your eyes and try to picture that. Do you see the towering density of Tokyo or Mumbai? Well, you’re partly right. Megacities with populations topping 10 million are part of the picture, but our urbanization…