July 2010
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Chinese ex-pat visions (and criticisms) of the... →
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Shanghai: demolitions going on. →
Good report from canadian team “bricoleururbanism”.
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“But the outrage is harder to find among the thousands of poor families who live...”
– http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/21/world/asia/21beijing.html?_r=1&src=twt&twt=nytimes
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“Beijing Journal: Bulldozers Meet Historic Quarters in Beijing, to Mixed Reaction...”
– nytimes
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Locally-proposed comprehensive Four Rivers... →
”As the Four Major Rivers Restoration Project is directly connected to the lives of local residents, the central government should negotiate with the local governments.”
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The "holistic" opposition to the "Four rivers... →
“We cannot understand why a large-scale project, from which our natural environment is unlikely to be able to recover, must be pushed forward so urgently, even going so far as to circumvent law and procedure, without any citizen consensus.”
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“Empty safes labeled “bankruptcy of the local governments,” and shovels and...”
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Migrant Workers in Shanghai →
As China’s economy turns to globalisation, at home the issue of a floating workforce is becoming more intense and complex. In Shanghai, low-skilled migrants are subject to economic and social segregation. This comes with a social stigma and restricts the migrants to particular economic sectors within a fragmented labour market. Nonetheless, the itineraries the migrants follow allow them to acquire...
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Material Commonalities →
The term ‘material commonalities’ is a reference to Walter Benjamin’s language of things; as we develop new forms of mapping human and non-human actors, questions of representation remain central and continue to take their inspiration from multiple practices of visualization.
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"square foot" gardening in the netherlands →
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condos go green! →
In New Jersey, a community garden with 72 plots is being sectioned off near the community dog run. Starting this month, residents can ride down the elevator, grab tools from the shed, and grow their own.
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June 2010
22 posts
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China’s Media Coverage of Environmental Issues →
One of the best bloggers on environmental law based in Shanghai. Unluckily, we knew since a while, that he has left to the US and is no longer working in china.
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The "move away" policy or how to battling...
Big cities face heavy environmental protection pressure. For instance, Beijing has a daily environmental index and the government also implements an annual “blue sky” plan. And environmental protection departments are especially under heavy pressure to fulfill their quota of emission cuts every year.
From this we can see that the government is very strict about emission...
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The statement for developing korean land by LH.
“To construct and supply decent and affordable housing units to the vulnerable and to improve their residential environment, as well as to implement tailored residential welfare programs.
To develop housing land, new towns, Multi-functional Administrative City and Innovation Cities, as well as to execute projects aimed at regenerating cities in a bid to create comfortable residential spaces and...
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Catholic Solidarity for Deterrence of Four Major...
The government’s 22.2 trillion-won (US$19.13 billion) Four Major Rivers Restoration Project includes dredging and damming sections of the country´s major waterways. Authorities say it is needed to prevent flooding and pollution. “Our outcry is the proclamation of the value of life created by God,” the statement said. “Now, the rivers are groaning, life in the rivers are dying and wetlands are...
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Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting in China →
AMFIC addresses atmospheric environmental monitoring over China. It consists of an integrated information system for monitoring and forecasting tropospheric pollutants over China. The system uses satellite and in situ air quality measurements and modelling to generate consistent air quality information over China.
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Polycentric Systems as One Approach for Solving... →
After an introduction to the problem, this chapter will review the extensive research that demonstrated the capabilities of many citizens to design imaginative and productive ways of producing public goods and common-pool resources. Successful systems tend to be polycentric with small units nested in larger systems. Not all such systems are successful, and we need to understand factors associated...
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Air quality forecasting challenges
The problem of air quality forecasting is different in many ways from the problem of weather forecasting. The latter typically is focused on prediction of severe, adverse weather conditions, while the meteorology of adverse air quality conditions frequently is associated with benign weather. Boundary layer structure and wind direction are perhaps the two most poorly determined meteorological...
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“Meteorological observations are critical to effective air quality prediction,...”
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The Mapo APTs. First New Town in Korea,1962. →
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Land Development and Management history →
“To become a corporation that creates beautiful, good national land and cities to live in.”
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WatchInstitutional video showcasing the monitoring process of air quality in Shanghai. This real time air quality monitoring service was launched at the World Expo. Or is better to say, because of it. China is doing huge efforts to curbe the criticisms on the air quality of its bigger cities. So, they are using these megaevents (the last year Olympics at Beijing, the now World Expo at Shanghai) to...
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“Shanghai, China’s commercial and industrial hub, staged a massive cleanup...”
May 2010
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The makeover of Shanghai before the expo. →
The city says that to clear a huge site along the Huangpu River, which snakes through the heart of Shanghai, it relocated 18,000 families and about 270 factories, including the colossal Jiang Nan Shipyard, which employs 10,000 workers.
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“Seeing the State: Transparency as Metaphor http://bit.ly/d6xC8N”
– participatory
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Shanghai "expo-based" real time air quality... →
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Shanghai Environmental Protection Bureau (EPB) have launched AirNow International, with real-time air quality data reporting from the 2010 World Expo, which runs from May 1 to October 31. The Shanghai EPB will use technology developed by EPA to send air quality data to Shanghai citizens through the Internet.
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Shanghai Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau →
Descriptions of the major duties of this city “agency”.
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Monitoring air quality at Shanghai →
THE city’s environmental protection department will issue timely reports on the environment and air quality near and inside the Expo site, officials said at a news briefing today. Zhang Quan, director of the Shanghai Environmental Protection Bureau, said the bureau had set up 46 automatic monitoring stations to cover the whole city, including the Expo site. It had also cooperated with more...
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Review of Shanghai's Environmental Community →
The emergence of environmental activism in Shanghai appears to be relatively late for a cosmopolitan city of its size and development. Shanghai’s NGOs have only begun to launch environmental projects since 2000, when it became fashionable to contribute to activities to improve the environment
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ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS AND PROTESTS IN CHINA →
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AMO: An atlas of "spaces" (makeshifting that word... →
Where space was considered permanent, it now feels transitory - on its way to becoming. The words and ideas of architecture, once the official language of space, no longer seem capable of describing this proliferation of new conditions. But even as its utility is questioned in the real world, architectural language survives, its repertoire of concepts and metaphors resurrected to create clarity...
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“Innovation is distinct from improvement in that it causes society to reorganize....”
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“The sharp divide between a scientific inside, where experts are formulating...”