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Luciano Cessari, Elena Gigliarelli In: Progress in Cultural Heritage Preservation Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 7616, 2012, pp 369-377 Abstract Climate change have impacts on many sectors: land use, housing, transportation, public health, water supply and sanitation, solid waste, food security, and energy. This article presents the results of the project SECHURBA, financed by European funds, whose purpose was to examine the potential of environmental protection and sustainability in historic cities, documenting barriers and prospects of various historical communities with diversity in Europe. Critical objectives which were achieved, such as 'Historic Community Climate Change Strategies', assessment tools, route maps to intervene in areas such culturally sensitive, are under implementation in historic urban areas in Popular Republic of China. Through the application to some typical towns and villages in the Chinese province of Zeijang the outcomes of SECHURBA will developed to outline a set of actions and tools that will call 'Historic Cities Regeneration by Climate Change Strategies'. Online at: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-34234-9_37?LI=true

Contient les réflexions et études des étudiants de l'ENSA Paris-Malaquais l'occasion des échanges universitaires avec la Chine, 2004-2011. - Mention parallèle de titre ou de responsabilité : urban transformations in China. - Mention parallèle de titre ou de responsabilité : Jian zhu yi : Zhong guo cheng shi bian hua. - Mention parallèle de titre ou de responsabilité : 建筑易 : 中国城市变化

Auteur : David Pilling December 26, 2011 "By 2050, 75% of the world will live in cities. Faced with this inexorable shift, humanity's goal should be to manage our future in a metropolis, not to succumb to it, writes David Pilling"

JOHANNESBURG, July 3 (Xinhua) -- A high-powered delegation from South Africa's richest province Gauteng is on way to China to seek more investment in infrastructure projects, it was announced on Tuesday [3 July]. The delegation, led by Gauteng Premier Nomvula Mokonyane, is expected to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Chongqing Municipality, according to Khulu Radebe, Gauteng head of the Department of Economic Development. The MoU was intended to boost Gauteng's economic infrastructure, green economy and skills transfer, amongst other things, Radebe said. Through the visit, Gauteng was hoping to learn from China as South Africa plans to roll-out massive infrastructure projects in line with the priorities of the national government, he said. "As a developing economy, the Gauteng province is hoping to learn a lot from Chongqing. They are leaders in the manufacturing sector." "We are also hopin! g to attract more Chinese investors to Gauteng. As soon as Mokonyane signs the MoU, residents of Gauteng can look forward to projects that will create jobs and boost Gauteng's growth to maintain the province's status as an economic hub of South Africa," he said. Tshwane Mayor Kgosientso Ramokgopa, who is also part of the delegation, said partnership with China was significant in many fields. "Our people's lives will improve because after this partnership is sealed, we will see a massive roll-out of infrastructure projects. Already in Tshwane, we have a number of flagship projects in the pipeline including the construction of the Tshwane International Conference Center and Rainbow Junction, amongst others," said Ramokgopa. During the visit, Mokonyane is expected to visit Chongqing's Urban Planning Gallery and a Rail Transit Manufacturing Company, and will also address the Chongqing-Gauteng Economic and Trade Seminar, according to the So! uth African Government Communication and Information System. Source: Xinhua news agency, Beijing, in

Urbanization today is powering a transformation in the prosperity of billions of people in the world's emerging economies. The global consuming classes -- made up of people with incomes of more than $10 a day, sufficient for discretionary spending on goods and services beyond the basics of food, shelter and clothes -- will grow to 4.2 billion in 2025, up from about 1.2 billion in 1990. And more than half of those 4.2 billion will live in only about 440 mostly mid-sized cities in emerging markets. Consumers living in cities could spend an additional $20 trillion a year by 2025, a powerful growth opportunity for companies and the global economy.[...] En ligne, site consulté le : 17/08/2012

The East Is Rising Meet the 29 Chinese cities powering global growth. BY ELIAS GROLL | SEPT/OCT 2012 Keren Su/Getty Images 1 / 30 Foreign Policy's index of the 75 most dynamic global cities contains more than a few surprises, but perhaps none more so than the fact that 29 of these cities are in China -- far and away the most of any country on the list. As part of its mad dash toward modernization, China has rapidly urbanized, spawning a slew of massive cities whose size is only tempered by the surprising fact that most people in the West have never heard of them. Despite their relative anonymity, these are the cities likely to drive the world economy during coming decades. Some are high-tech manufacturers; others are bathed in smoke produced by the factories that not long ago were a common sight in Western countries. Meet the 29 Chinese cities powering global growth. Shanghai: Although Shanghai had no skyscrapers in 1980, it now has at least 4,000 -- more than twice as many as New York. In 2010, 208 million square feet of real estate, nearly 80 times the square footage of New York's massive One World Trade Center, was constructed in the city. Above, the Jinmao Building and Oriental Pearl TV Tower can be seen dominating the Shanghai skyline as its rises from the banks of Huangpu River. [...] En ligne, site consulté le 17/08/2012

Thématique n° 2 [ScienceDirect, via Biblio-SHS] Auteur : Rui Mu, Martin de Jong Paru dans : Policy and Society, Volume 31, Issue 1, March 2012, Pages 1-12, Special issue : "The state of the transport infrastructures in China" This thematic edition of Policy & Society contains a set of seven articles about transport infrastructure policy in the People's Republic of China. Though they all revolve around this central topic, they cover different facets, such as the influence of Confucian values on decision-making, its impact on macro-economic development and regional distribution, power relations within Public Private Partnerships, organizational and contractual relations in subway construction, the duration of decision-making processes and the viability of developing Transit Oriented Development in Chinese cities. This first contribution will sketch a general overview of two driving forces behind China's motorization process (economic growth and urbanization), what the impact has been on the expansion of the transport networks and hubs and what social and policy problems Chinese authorities currently have to tackle as a consequence of these developments. It ends with a small prospectus of the other six contributions to this volume.

A group of government officials from China traveled on a study tour in the United States last week. The tour, hosted by the World Resources Institute, focused on low carbon development. The delegation was led by Director General Su Wei of the Department of Climate Change from China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), who is China's chief negotiator on climate change and a key decision maker for low-carbon development initiatives.

Thématique 2 [ScienceDirect, via Biblio-SHS] Auteur : Thomas Vendryes Paru dans : China Economic Review Volume 22, Issue 4, December 2011, Pages 669-692 Sustainable natural resource use in rural China - Has China Passed the Lewis Turning Point? CERDI 2009 - CERDI 2009 Abstract Rural-urban migration flows are a crucial corollary of economic development. The adverse or beneficial effects of internal migration, for sending as well as receiving areas, and the definition of optimal migration policies, have remained much discussed issues since the seminal works of Harris and Todaro (1970). This debate is especially acute in China where the "household registration system" (hukou) acts as a strong constraint on individual migration. This paper aims to assess the consequences of hukou through a simple model of a developing dual economy with overlapping generations. Contrary to existing studies focused on the contemporaneous allocation of economic resources, it deals with the dynamic consequences of migration flows and migration policies. It shows that, in fairly general circumstances, hukou-related migration constraints can actually hasten development, understood as the transfer of the labor force to the modern sector, driven by capital accumulation. The hukou system could thus be one of the causes of the extremely high Chinese saving rate and of the high pace of Chinese development. Insights from the model are confronted with stylized facts from the Chinese development, and theoretical results are especially consistent with the effects of the 2001 "towns and small cities" reform.

China's coastal megacities and soon-to-be one billion urban population face growing threats from flooding and natural disasters. Olivia Boyd reports.

Siu Yu Lau, Stephen Gonzalez Martinez Paula In: ACE©, AÑO 7 núm.20, OCTUBRE 2012 China is going through one of the most dramatic social and cultural transformations in its history. In this speed change scenario, the never - questioned conventions in the western architecture have been betrayed. Invention, reinterpretation sometimes even revolution, never represent a step further as they did in the XXI century theoretical thinking. To engage architectural thoughts with the booming economy could contribute to the definition of a contemporary Chinese architecture, far from the generic city, in a society that has evolved from pre-modernism to post-industrialism in a short period of time. Through the analysis of Hong Kong, and a series of case studies, a conclusion to this scenario is sought.

his study explores the environmental effects of the triple transition process of marketisation, globalisation and decentralisation using data on industrial SO2 and soot emissions at the prefecture-city level

This article considers the medium- and long-term prospects for residential construction in China and their implications for steel consumption.

We examine the effects of the firm contribution rate and individual contribution rate on the per capita income growth rate, population growth rate, saving rate and education expense rate.

This paper presents the impact of income inequality on subjective well-being using data from the 2002 Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP) Survey.

Sinapolis est un atelier d'études et de ressources sur la ville et les environnements construits chinois. Sinapolis propose, à travers un concept original mariant expertise urbaine, diffusion des savoirs et nouveaux médias, une approche actualisée de l'urbain chinois sous ses formes les plus diverses : histoire, pratiques, acteurs, représentation, tendances, localités...

Cliquer sur le lien en bas de la page pour télécharger le PDF de l'article. Bruno J. Hubert, architecte et enseignement à l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris-Malaquais (ENSAPM), et Jérémie Descamps ont collaboré de 2004 à aujourd'hui, mettant en place des conventions d'échanges universitaires avec les universités chinoises, avec l'aide de l'Observatoire de la Chine contemporaine de la Cité de l'architecure et du patrimoine. Chaque année, un workshop universitaire a permis à des étudiants français et chinois de travailler ensemble, sur des sites représentant et problématisant la Chine urbaine et ses mouvements. Sept parties de l'article revisitent sept sites étudiés et retracent leurs mutations ; à Pékin - Pingguo Sequ, Wangjing, Maliandao, Gaobedian, Wanfotang ; à Hanzhou- Qiantangjiang et Zhijiang. "Promenons-nous dans les villes..." Contribution de Jérémie Descamps pour Bruno J. Hubert, Architectures / Mutations, Transformations urbaines en Chine, Publication de l'Ecole nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-Malaquais et de la Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine, 2012