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Urban buildings use up precious materials and cause pollution. We need visionary thinking to create more sustainable designs that respond to their environment. 
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Students learn about UNESCO World Heritage sites and use pictures and clues to identify the locations of the sites on a large map. Via dilaycock
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Widespread coal use in the north has led in recent decades to an average decrease in life span of more than five years, research indicates.
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Impact of urbanisation - China
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How architects' ideas have developed about the mega-city of the future.
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A mere continuation of current strategies will not achieve sustainable development says the UN World Economic and Social Survey 2013.
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Urbanisation
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Construction begins on a cave hotel resort by Atkins that will nestle into the rockface of an abandoned water-filled quarry near Shanghai, China.
GTANSW & ACT's insight:
Sustainbility and future urban buildings
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Watch how climate change is expected make the sea level rise and swallow U.S. cities in these climate change GIFs.
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Climate change - urban impacts / sustainability
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Construction has started on a cave hotel resort by Atkins that will nestle into the rockface of an abandoned water-filled quarry near Shanghai, China. Once complete, the hotel will offer around 400 rooms, as well as conference facilities, a banquet hall, restaurants, a swimming pool and a water-sports centre. The building will use geothermal technologies to generate its own electricity and lighting, while greenery will blanket a roof that extends just two storeys above the edge of the quarry.
Sustainability is integral to Atkins' design of this unique resort, built into an abandoned, water-filled quarry.
John Blunnie's curator insight,
July 12, 2013 11:20 AM
It seems even the Chinese tourist industry is at the forefront of hotel construction. This place looking breathtaking. 
Carol Thomson's curator insight,
July 17, 2013 4:51 AM
China is a major topic this year, could be good. 
Resort and Hotel Mythbusters's comment,
September 10, 2013 2:08 AM
This sustainable hotel is one another impressive work that architecture has been done. The basic idea itself is impressive considering its built in a cave over a waterfall and 3 storeys of them were beneath the water. However, the most important thing is this hotel generates their own energy which is incredible considering most new hotel nowadays have to promote their sustainability in the future. We can't wait to see the hotel to be finish and ready to use.
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Canberra has topped a new urban competitiveness index for Australian cities with a population of 200,000 to 1 million people.
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From
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Beijing is one of the earliest still-existant cities planned around a grid: the old city is organized around a chessboard-like matrix of alleys, known as hutong, that date back at least a millenium.
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China has introduced “harsher punishments” for breaking the nation’s environmental protection laws: reckless violators of pollution standards in the world’s biggest and fastest-growing economy now face execution.
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Around many of our Gateway Cities like New York, Washington DC and San Francisco, are sprouting "New Cities", complete with their own infrastructure, neighborhoods, employment centers and cultural identity.
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Bjarne Stenquist of Social Life discusses a prototype area-based investment project being trialled in the south of Sweden.
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Urban renewal - future urban possibilities
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A global ecozoic movement is seeing city dwellers reconnecting with the ecosystems and natural energy sources upon which life depends.
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Makes good background reading.
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This is fantastic for comparing large cities.
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Controls on worst polluters and PM2.5, adjustment to nation's energy structure among State Council measures to rid cities of choking smog
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A 12-year plan to move hundreds of millions of rural residents into cities is intended to spur economic growth, but could have unintended consequences, skeptics warn.
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Migration changing China
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Six lanes of traffic will be reduced to three in the city's plan to improve the walkability of Broadway.
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Towrads more sustainable cities
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A new study from the University of Southern California reveals climate change may be weeding out the bacteria that form the base of the ocean’s food chain by selecting certain strains for survival.
GTANSW & ACT's insight:
Marine environments - climate change impacts
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The grand conclusion? Americans love warm weather.
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Population distributionand climate in the usa
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London's waterfront has never quite managed the elegance of the Seine, but that's about to change, with the help of a little inspiration from New York.
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Green walls, rooftop vegetable gardens and balcony growing systems are capturing the imagination of city-dwellers everywhere. But is it time for a reality check on the viability of producing food in urban environments?
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Rampant building activity in the Hindon-Yamuna basin has not only left Delhi vulnerable but exposed large parts of Noida to the risk of flash floods.
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City dwellers are catching on to the environmental and social benefits of installing green walls and roofs in increasingly dense urban centres.
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