Tag: China
The community hub made from salvaged wood
An architecture firm has come up with a clever solution for discarded wood ...
Environment Innovation Sustainable Development World
Green buses: you wait for one, then 9,500 turn up (in China)
Every five weeks, 9,500 brand new electric buses take to the roads in China...
Environment World
The under-reported decline of global poverty
Since yesterday, 250,000 people have been lifted out of bone-crushing, one-meal-a-day, soul-destroying, unrelenting, extreme poverty, writes...
Opinion
Plans for China’s first ‘city of trees’ take root
With such limited space, how can cities be designed to feature more greenery? China is thinking outside the box: vertically...
Environment Innovation
World’s biggest bike share scheme clocks up 115m hires per year
The Chinese city of Hangzhou has made cycling a key part of its integrated public transport system, including a free bike hire service...
Environment
The ‘vertical forest’ to combat pollution in China
The first project of its kind in Asia, towers covered in thousands of plants and trees are under construction in China. The architect wants ...
Innovation
