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Calthorpe on Chinese urbanism
Submitted by MLewyn on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 12:16pmPeter Calthorpe spoke this morning on Chinese urbanism- the good and the bad. From a new urbanist perspective, the good includes density and transportation: Chinese cities tend to be more compact than ours, and the government seeks to limit car use to a 20% modal share (i.e. 20 percent of all trips... read more »
Jan Gehl on American Cities and Walkability
Submitted by Luke Hogan on Mon, 09/27/2010 - 11:04amFast Company recently posted a Q and A with Danish urban designer Jan Gehl. Mr. Gehl, the author of the book, "Life Between Buildings," as well as a new book titled "Cities for People," is an expert at building cities at a people-centered scale.
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Take a look at China
Submitted by MLewyn on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 9:06amIt is an article of faith among some defenders of the sprawl status quo that China is inevitably trending towards sprawl (thus allegedly proving that the human desire for sprawl is universal).
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CNU XV Blog, Part 11: China and India
Submitted by MLewyn on Fri, 05/18/2007 - 3:00pmJohn Ellis spoke this afternoon on sprawl-producing policies in China and India. Like America in 1900, China has historically suffered from overcrowding.
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