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- Will China maintain the green lessons learned from the Olympics
Newsweek looks at some of the lgreen essons learned by China during the Olympics and how it may keep some of temporary restrictions to improve the environment.
Read more @ Keeping It Green | Newsweek International | Newsweek.com.
- Companies moving inland from coastal region
China Daily gives an insight into the companies moving inland from the Shanghai and surrounding coastal cities – higher land, construction and labour costs.
“A changing industrial landscape is unfolding in China’s most prosperous coastal region…….read more @ the SOURCE: China Daily Companies moving inland from coastal region.
- Experts will now chart city’s roadmap-Ahmedabad-Cities-The Times of India
No red tapism, no partisan politics leading to uneven growth. For once, the city’s growth will be charted by professionals. The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has recruited young professionals from leading urban planning institutes in the country to prepare a roadmap for the city in the next 10 years.
SOURCE: The Times of India – [...]
- ‘Superblocks add to green space’ - The Jakarta Post
Public parks within superblocks run by private developers can alleviate the lack of green public space and help urban revitalization, an expert said Friday.
“The city administration needs to revitalize the city but doesn’t have the cash. So permitting private superblocks is a part of urban revitalization,” University of Indonesia economist Faisal Basri said at the [...]
- Environment-friendly Olympic Village granted LEED gold award-Xinhua
Chen Zhili, head of the Beijing Olympic Village, received a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) gold award here on Wednesday presented by the U.S. Green Building Council.
On behalf of the council, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson honored the award to Chen, who is also vice president of the Beijing Organizing Committee of the [...]
- Creating an environment to foil crimes
THE harmonisation of landscaping and the enhancing of street lighting are two essential aspects in environmental design that the Selangor state government can implement to help curb crime in residential areas, according to a Chinese association in Klang.
Read more @ the SOURCE: the star online – Creating an environment to foil crimes.
- Uncontrolled outdoor advertising floods Ukrainian capital
Caught in a blizzard of outdoor advertising, Kyiv seems to have turned into a slick commercial capital. But while some find the advertising blitzkrieg alluring and profitable, others are desperately trying to cut through the clutter.
Read more @ the SOURCE: Kyiv Post – Uncontrolled outdoor advertising floods Ukrainian capital.
- Sasaki and Olympic Green - LA TIMES
Christopher Hawthorne wrote an interesting article about the Olympic Architecture and was interesting to read about his conversation with Sasaki about the Beijng Olympic Green as follows:
“I was put through to Dennis Pieprz, the president of the firm, who oversaw its work on the Green. After I asked him whether he would be in the [...]
- Sustainable urban development a necessity
Sustainable development of an urban area or territory depends heavily on its development plan.
As in other countries, Viet Nam is working on establishing an urban structure plan for a period of 20-25 years which is divided into several stages.
SOURCE: Viet Nam News.
- New parks in the capital
The Phnom Penh Post reports that the new and improved parks are providing Phnom Penh residents some much-needed respite from the squeeze of the capital city’s increasingly cramped quarters.
The Wat Botom, Hun Sen, Vimean Ekreach and Wat Phnom parks have all undergone makeovers and are drawing hoards of locals to relax, exercise, picnic or loll [...]
- China quake prompts call for back-up copies of urban files-Xinhua
The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development has urged cities across the country to keep extra copies of local urban planning files in other localities to preserve data against emergencies and disasters.
In the devastating May 12 earthquake in southwest China, such files in many regions, including Wenchuan, Beichuan and Pingwu, were either buried, destroyed or [...]
- Star architects bid to design new center for South Korean capital as 21st century model city - International Herald Tribune
An all-star group of international architects bidding for the chance to design a new urban center for the South Korean capital said Tuesday the vast site offered a rare chance to create a model for 21st century cities.
Five top architecture firms behind many of the world’s recent iconic structures are being given US$1 million each [...]
- Property outlook robust - The Standard
Hong Kong’s home prices and rents are expected to continue rising in the second half despite higher mortgage rates and other external factors.
Ricacorp Properties said yesterday that as of last Friday, there were 64,342 deals in the housing market in the first half - an 11-year high - driven by a 27 percent jump in [...]
- SUrban development project underway
As part of the 2007-2011 Strategic Policy of Urban Apartment Developments, five projects are now underway in the city, including Menara Cawang in East Jakarta, City Park in Cengkareng and Kebagusan City in South Jakarta.
The development project came about after the failure of the Indonesian government’s 2003 National Development of One Million Houses program,
SOURCE: The [...]
- Housing societies have no environment plans: EPD official - Daily Times
LAHORE: Housing societies of the city do not have an environment plan approved by the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) and the agency has not made a law to induce these housing societies to quantify trees on their land to protect the city’s environment, an Environment Protection Department (EPD) official told Daily Times on Sunday.
He said [...]
- Foriegn firms aren’t just in India for the cash
The Times of India looks at foreign firms in India and talks about
Be it a slum redevelopment project in congested Mumbai or Kolkata’s new museum of modern art, the global imprint on the country’s fast-changing urban landscape is evident. Made in India but designed by a clutch of foreign architects looking to cash in on the [...]
- RhinoTerrain 1.0 for Rhinoceros 4.0 Released
RhinoTerrain SARL today announced the release of RhinoTerrain 1.0 for Rhinoceros 4.0, a plugin for generation and analysis of accurate 3D terrain models for use in Architecture, Survey, Civil Engineering and Landscaping practices plus support for output to 3d printers.
Features include Fast Terrain Creation, True terrain visualisation, Contour Curve Generation and Terrain Importer.
Value The [...]
- IHG to open tallest hotel in Vietnam by 2011
InterContintenal Hotels & Resorts(IHG) to open Vietnam’s tallest hotel in 2011 InterContinental Hanoi Landmark to occupy upper floors of a new 336-metre tower, one of the world’s tallest buildings
IHG announced the addition of InterContinental Hanoi Landmark, Vietnam’s tallest hotel, to its growing list of InterContinental Hotels & Resorts under development. The company has signed [...]
- Green design for buildings to become mandatory - The Jakarta Post
The Jakarta administration is taking a step toward creating more energy-efficient buildings by drafting green regulations for future and existing structures.
The regulations are being drafted by the Jakarta Property Management and Control Agency and will form the legal grounding for the green designs, agency head Hari Sasongko said Wednesday.
“Many cities in the world have applied [...]
- Green revolution: Air is what’s bothering Indians
Most Indians ranked environment pollution as their second worst problem in a list of six and believe that air, water and noise pollution will get worse, says a first-of-its-kind survey conducted by CNN-IBN and Outlook magazine.
The survey, in partnership with the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and Centre for the Study of Developing Societies [...]
