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May. 23, 2018 / Gordon Price

Daily Durning: Life in Shanghai

“Shanghai: Life in the Megacity” is a 24-minute video by Germany’s DW Documentary, offering a glimpse at the quality and pace…
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Feb. 06, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

The Daily Durning~Digitized Surveillance in Cities in China

  The New York Times  has written about the increasing invasion of personal information and biometric data in China where cities store…
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Jan. 19, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Chinese Housing Market Not So Hot~Metro Vancouver Implications?

It had been forecast for some time with the tightening of lending and monetary restrictions. But as the Wall Street Journal reports…
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Jan. 04, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

China Enforces Standards for Auto Emissions

In a pretty dramatic move to halt air pollution, The New York Times reports on China boldly ceasing the production of car…
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Aug. 16, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Dockless Bikes Making a Big Comeback in China

Bloomberg Image The Economist reports on a new trend  that is getting attention in China-the return of the bicycle. Unlike…
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Mar. 18, 2015 / Gordon Price

Ray Spaxman: A terrifying view from Shanghai

On a gorgeous sunny morning, as I get ready to go for a walk along the seawall, it is terrifying…
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Jan. 30, 2015 / Gordon Price

Urbanization, Birth Rates and Policy: The Case of Shanghai

From the New York Times:  . In Shanghai, Easing of One-Child Rule Isn’t Seen as Cure for Challenges Ahead .…
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Aug. 20, 2013 / Gordon Price

Georgia @ Thurlow: The Rubble Moves

There is a field of rubble in front of a fashionable hotel, not far from the southwest corner of Georgia at…
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Jun. 06, 2013 / Gordon Price

Time-lapse Shanghai

Amazing what can be done with time-lapse these days – and Shanghai makes a good super-charged example for this tourism…
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Mar. 06, 2013 / Gordon Price

"A building bonanza unprecedented in human history"

We all enjoy a good Chinese Ghost City story.  Here’s Sixty Minutes’s version, by way of the Shanghaiist: . Ignore…
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Sep. 06, 2012 / Gordon Price

Motordom East: China and the Car

From Better! Cities & Towns: China is building the entire country around the automobile — making the same mistakes the…
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Jan. 05, 2012 / Gordon Price

“Better! Cities & Towns” features Shanghai

Editor Philip Langdon picked up our Price Tags on Shanghai: The essay captures a huge, ambitious city in all its…
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Dec. 08, 2011 / Gordon Price

The 110th issue of Price Tags: Shanghai

Price Tags is back.  The old Price Tags, that is – a kind of digital magazine on urbanism. I used…
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Jun. 14, 2011 / Gordon Price

Shanghai Images – 3

An interesting observation by Ron to one of the shots in Shanghai Images 1: The street below the elevated freeway looks…

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