West Lake urban area scheme announced – Vietnam
The Ha Noi Department of Planning and Architecture late last week announced details of the West Lake urban area project. | Read More
Asia
Korea to help out with Hanoi’s new urban center
Seoul, the capital of the Republic of Korea, will contribute 90 percent of the cost of mapping out a new | Read More
China’s Three Gorges Dam: An Environmental Catastrophe? – Scientific American
For over three decades, the Chinese government has dismissed warnings from scientists and environmentalists that its Three Gorges Dam—the world’s | Read More
International designs shape Indian construction projects – Thaindian News
Thaindian News reports on designs such as the luxury villa designed by Giorgio Armani, an 18-hole golf course conceptualised by Greg | Read More
Bigger cities means more poverty says UN
Urbanisation in the Asia-Pacific region has driven up poverty, says the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the | Read More
ESCAP TO LAUNCH KEY ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SURVEY ON ASIA-PACIFIC REGION
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) addresses in the latest issue of its flagship | Read More
The Chinese: from Yellow Peril to Green Peril?
Daniel Ben-Ami writes a thought provocating essay on China that debunks some of the generalisations that we have read over | Read More
Good Design is Good Business – May 23 2008
BusinessWeek and Architectural Record will honor building and planning projects that are reshaping modern China at the second biannual “Good | Read More
IT to play bigger role in urban planning
Information technologies will play a more significant role in the country’s property industry, speakers at a real estate summit said. | Read More
Melbourne 2030 – no longer a true vision
Victorian Premier John Brumby freed-up land today for 90,000 new homes in the councils of Wyndham, Melton, Hume, Whittlesea and Casey. | Read More