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Oct

Sustainable Asian Cities and the First #Earth2Chat

Categories: Asia and the Pacific, Digital, Social Media and Web 2.0

Tags: cc, density, Earth2Chat, singapore, twitter, urban asia

by Joe Peach

Last week, the This Big City and Earth2Hub teams co-hosted the very first #Earth2Chat discussing sustainability in Asian cities. Despite the frenetic pace of questions and answers, we kept track of our favourite moments, presented here, just in case you missed out. Read more

Oct

Twelve Posts About Urban Asia

Categories: Asia and the Pacific

Tags: cc, urban asia

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by Joe Peach

DomestiCity art research project by Cristina Nualart

This Big City shifted its focus to the Eastern world last week. We visited Indonesia, China, Japan, Vietnam, Kyrgyzstan, South Korea, India, the United Arab Emirates and Thailand, and in case you missed any of our 12 posts, here they all are. Read more

Oct

South Korea’s Most Sustainable Home

Categories: Asia and the Pacific, Buildings, Residential

Tags: energy, green buildings, groundsource, LEED, passivhaus, solar, south korea, urban asia

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by Forum for the Future

A show home in South Korea has become the first in East Asia to win the US Green Building Council’s prestigious LEED platinum status. But with building costs double that of the average home, is it financially viable on a commercial scale? Read more

Oct

Three Threats to Asia’s Urban Heritage

Categories: Asia and the Pacific, Planning, Urban Scale

Tags: cc, heritage, natural disasters, urban asia

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by Kayla Jonas Galvin

Asia’s urban heritage faces unique challenges. Whilst there is a strong will to protect the history of Asian countries, there are also some major threats, including natural disasters, differing concepts of heritage, and pressure from urbanization. Read more

Oct

A Beautiful, Global City? – Dubai in Pictures

Categories: Africa and the Middle East, Planning, Urban Scale

Tags: cc, Dubai, photo essay, urban asia

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by Claudia Huerta

The tale of modern day Dubai probably starts a bit before 1966, the year oil was discovered in the emirate. Forty-five years later the Dubai brand is defined by a series of "city building" projects that aimed to create a beautiful global city. Read more

Oct

The Non-Intentional Landscape of Tokyo

Categories: Asia and the Pacific, Community, People

Tags: cc, Tokyo, urban asia

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by Chris Berthelsen

Like all organic systems, cities fare better without central planning. Additive, centrifugal, Tokyo starts with individual parts and expands. Proliferates. Undefined. Unclear centers. Looser and ambiguous, freedom is valued over regularity of form and clarity of outline. Read more

Oct

Displacing People to Make Space for Cars: Is India Evicting the Wrong Squatters?

Categories: Asia and the Pacific, Planning, Urban Scale

Tags: cc, Delhi, public space, road construction, slums, squatters, urban asia

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by Lyndsey Scofield

More than 1 million of Delhi’s residents have been displaced through demolition of slum neighborhoods over the last 10 years. At the same time, India’s government continues to construct roads instead of transit or pedestrian infrastructure, losing public space in the process. Read more

Oct

DomestiCity: A Photo Essay on Domestic Activities in Dense Urban Areas

Categories: Asia and the Pacific, Community, People

Tags: art, cc, domestic life, Ho Chi Minh City, photo essay, urban asia, Vietnam

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by Cristina Nualart

Ho Chi Minh City's residents have developed some ingenious practicalities to cope with the city’s logistics. This photo essay explores the imaginative ways in which people negotiate the use of their limited living quarters. Read more

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