2015年11月5日 · The map below shows 20 of 50 cities with large vacant housing areas that they tracked. (The researchers don’t disclose all 50 cities, in order to avoid influencing real estate prices, they say.) But most of them are medium-sized cities in China’s East, located mostly in a city’s periphery or in a newly developed area.

2015年4月17日 · The endless articles about Chinese overbuilding leading to ghost cities, I find way overblown. Almost all of the articles refer to the same one or two locations and fail to create a coherent picture of China overall out of the narrow specific examples. In fact, if we are sticking with the dramatic titling, I think they are missing the point.

2014年9月22日 · China’s capital stock remains below $10,000 per capita; that figure is above $90,000 in the US and more than $200,000 in Japan (at 2011 prices). Moreover, roughly 1% of China’s population – about 12 million people – is migrating to cities each year.

2015年11月24日 · Cities in East Asia are becoming more crowded, but in many of China’s urban centres population density is actually decreasing. The World Bank estimates that by 2030, a billion people will be living in Chinese cities and that China’s urban population grew by over 130 million people from 2000-2010.

2019年6月28日 · All coastal cities are facing sea-level rise, but some will be hit harder than others. Asian cities are in for a particularly rough ride. Part of the reason for that is that the populations of coastal cities are bulging: about four out of every five people impacted by sea-level rise by the middle of this century will live in East or South-East ...

2023年9月8日 · Design for inclusion: ghost airports located near cities – many with a shortage of affordable housing – present a powerful opportunity to bring socioeconomic equity right onto the drawing board. Design for sustainability: all airport redevelopment efforts should have climate-neutral principles at their core, from build through to operations ...

2023年9月14日 · Prior to the current downturn, residential development in China had boomed for several decades, leading to significant oversupply in certain markets and even ghost cities. The frenzy spurred developers to take on unsustainable amounts of debt and gave false confidence to homebuyers who poured their savings into home purchases up front thinking ...

2022年3月15日 · Then there’s the dystopian ghost towns of China, where 130 million properties are vacant, which could house about 340 million people, surpassing the current U.S. population. The opposing trend is the ground-up construction of “smart city” utopias, such as Songdo City in South Korea and Masdar City in Abu Dhabi, among others.

2015年8月31日 · The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. Incorporated as a not-for-profit foundation in 1971, and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the Forum is tied to no …

2017年11月16日 · But China is taking a firm stand against such flooding with this initiative, and the rest of the world might follow suit. From advanced drainage systems to roadways capable of absorbing water and creative planting, sponge cities are getting increasingly innovative in how they might be able to better fend off treacherous floodwaters.