Category Archives: Housing
What the New York Times Misses in its Article About China’s Property Market
The New York Times has published yet another article about China’s real estate market and the proliferation of empty apartmentView full post »
CHINA’S URBAN REVOLUTION: An Interview with British Architect Austin Williams
Image courtesy of Austin Williams Very rare is it to meet a China expat in the architecture and design field who is as an astute observerView full post »
SUPERDENSITY: An Interview with HASSELL Principal David Tickle
Image courtesy of HASSELL On my Twitter feed I recently came across a post about a new urban development concept calledView full post »
TRT World Interview: CUD Blog’s Ziyou Tian on Hong Kong’s Housing Crisis
China Urban Development readers: I’m very pleased to share with you a recent TV news interview with our very own Ziyou Tian on theView full post »
China’s Overheated Real Estate Market
Photo by 发课 吴 Since the end of 2015, property values have been heating up throughout China. In over 15 cities, home prices increased overView full post »
Solving Hong Kong’s Affordable Housing Crisis
Mei Tung Estate – Photograph by Can Pac Swire via Creative Commons Hong Kong’s shortage of affordable housing is becoming anView full post »
Tetris and the Challenge of Curbing Chinese Sprawl
While Chinese cities are growing at an unprecedented pace, much of this growth isn’t what most city planners would consider “smart” —View full post »
5 Questions for Shaun Rein, Author of “The End of Copycat China”
More can happen in two years in a developing country like China than can happen in a decade or more in developed countries. And given thisView full post »
Hong Kong Protests & The Role of the City
View over Victoria Harbor towards Central- the center of the pro-democracy protests Hong Kong is an unlikely setting for massive politicalView full post »
China Regional Urbanization Trends: 2014 Edition
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) shared with us their new study on “China’s Urban Dreams 2014” – an update onView full post »
View from the Ground in the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Zone
New development outside Jiangyou, Sichuan Province The following post is an adaptation of a comment I made on my good friend andView full post »
On Poor Quality: Corruption and Construction in China
As someone who works in the building industry in China, I am often asked why the quality of construction of most new buildings is so poor.View full post »