Car-Free City: China Builds Dense Metropolis from Scratch

[kelroy55]

Not sure if this is the right spot or if it's been posted before but this is cool.

http://weburbanist.com/2013/02/11/ca...-from-scratch/

[catch22]

No this forum is for development related to OKC. Maybe current events forum. I'm sure Pete or M will move it though.

[CuatrodeMayo]

China Builds Its Own Manhattan -- Except It's a Ghost Town - Bloomberg

[adaniel]

^
I was just going to post something similar. In one city (Shenzen?) something like 75% of condos are empty and at least one newly built mall was 97% vacant. Its really all an illusion.

I think China is in for one ugly property correction once the Commies run out of smoke and mirror tricks for their RE market, and the world will suffer for it.

[jerrywall]

Not sure if this is the right spot or if it's been posted before but this is cool.

Car-Free City: China Builds Dense Metropolis from Scratch | Urbanist

What sort of surprises me is this...

Chicago architecture firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture say the city will use 48% less energy and 58% less water than a more conventional city of the same size; it will also produce 89% less landfill waste and generate 60% less carbon dioxide.

I would have expected a more significant change. I'm also curious about the 89% reduction in landfill waste, and what designs of a city can cause that type of reduction.

[Rover]

That's interesting, because there was a 60 Minutes segment on it just a few weeks ago.