China’s economy is been seen by many pundits as the savior for the world economy and over the last three years has proved the eternal flame of glowing production and growth, however there has been lingering doubt for the last 18 months whether China’s economy can continue to grow at double digits and whether its ……
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I have been working in China for over 6 years as a landscape architect and there are many differences in comparison to Australia and Canada where I have worked before including size of the project, speed of design and the materials used (some good some bad). But the biggest difference that strikes me about the …… Front Cover Micro-blogging through various services has been growing over the last 3-4 years in China. It has become main news due to events involving natural and man-made disasters as well as scandals in pop-culture and officials. However, micro-blogging has now hit the mainstream conscious with today’s (August 1, 2011) front page of the China …… Shanghai announced plans to create a non-motorized traffic network in downtown areas over the next five years. Cycleways and bike lanes and connections with sideroads will be improved, along with areas for Parking facilities for non-motorized vehicles at Metro and bus stations. Public bicycle renting facilities will be rolled out following trials in the districts …… Often you hear of trade delegations coming to China and experiencing the city. Usually its through the window of a bus or van whilst they run from airport to city and around the city going to meetings. So its refreshing to see Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi taking the time to go and travel on subways …… Recently I have seen some brochures from international design companies for the Chinese market. Some were good and others were down right appalling. I thought I would give some insights into what makes your marketing material good or bad for the China market. Lets start with the bad Too smaller size font for Chinese text – I have …… I was thinking about the places I would like to design a project in the world if I had the chance. The places would not be anywhere I had designed a project before and limiting it to 5 places makes it harder to choose. I thought about it for a while and came up with …… Recently Yu Kongjian (俞孔坚) was interviewed by faslanyc blog. Yu gives insight into his firm – Turenscape and his design influences and methodology that help him create the myriad of designs in China and the USA. Yu Kongjian is quickly gaining noteraity overseas for his designs and influence on modern landscape architecture in China. Turenscape has also been a finalist in …… Recently Vincent Lo the chairman of Shui On Group (developer of Xintandi) came out and stated that there is no property bubble and bascially there isn’t enough land on which to build in China. I don’t know if he was taking about land in general, available green/brown fields or cities that have land that …… |
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