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Feb

Creative Shanghai: A Photo Essay

Categories: Arts and Culture, Asia and the Pacific

by Oli Mould

A megacity of over 23 million people, Shanghai has catalysed the eastward shift of global economic activity. The important of the creative industries to economic growth is a rhetoric that has also been part of Shanghai’s velocious growth. This photo essay attempts to capture Shanghai’s creative milieu. Read more

Feb

How Ahmedabad Got Public Transport Right

Categories: Asia and the Pacific, Public Transport, Transport

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by Forum for the Future

For anyone stuck in one of India’s interminable traffic jams, a bus rapid transit system sounds like the answer to a prayer. But it hasn’t been a smooth ride, with Delhi's BRT drawing strident criticism from motorists. However, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, the concept has been implemented with gusto. Read more

Jan

Developing a People-Centred Approach to Green Building

Categories: Asia and the Pacific, Buildings

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by Forum for the Future

Ratings schemes like LEED add credibility to 'green' and 'energy efficient' new builds, but often only cover a building’s potential performance as opposed to what happens when people start inhabiting it. A new scheme from India is aiming to address this. Read more

Jan

Active Streets in India’s Dharavi Slum

Categories: Asia and the Pacific, Planning, Urban Scale

Tags: cc, Dhavari, slums

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by Rachel Smith

Dharavi is a mixed-use self-contained residential and commercial development with a population in excess of 1 million. It has a real and very genuine sense of community. It's also one of the biggest slums in the world. Read more

Jan

Solar Powered States

Categories: Asia and the Pacific, Energy and Services, Planning

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by Forum for the Future

Tokelau, an island nation in the Pacific, is the world’s first territory to become wholly solar powered, thus future-proofing its energy needs. And it was sound economics that inspired the switch. So what's stopping cities from following suit? Read more

Jan

24 Random Urbanism Predictions for 2013

Categories: Asia and the Pacific, People, UK, USA and Canada

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by Theodore Brown

Here’s a list of things that will almost certainly happen in urbanism in 2013 (and when we say almost certainly we mean there’s probably a 30% of five of them happening which is pretty good as far as clairvoyance is concerned.) Read more

Dec

What Gangnam Style Says About Wealthy Neighborhoods Worldwide

Categories: Arts and Culture, Asia and the Pacific, People

Tags: cc, Seoul

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by Drew Reed

Gangnam style: on the surface its success seems to be a story of the raw power of the internet. Beneath the bump and grind of the video, Psy fills his lyrics with wry jabs at the upper class denizens of the wealthy Gangnam neighborhood of Seoul. But every big city in the world has its own Gangnam. Read more

Dec

Urban Change in Iran: Hong Kong, Dubai and the Strait of Hormuz

Categories: Asia and the Pacific, Planning, Urban Scale

Tags: cc, Dubai, Global Cities, hong kong, iran, Middle East

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by Alejandro Echeverria

Hong Kong served as the perfect buffer zone between Western economies and China, however, it is not the only city to have had a functional dialogue between different systems. The past decade has seen the emergence of other outposts with similar issues but where the context differs greatly. Read more

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