Despite having a major pollution problem, China is also championed as a model of "Green" urbanization by such figures as Charles Bowman, the Lord Mayor of London, particularly for its model city Xiong'an, in the country's north.
Where dirt paths and narrow roads once prevailed in much of the country, today's China has more miles of interstate-quality freeways and more cars on the road than the United States.
It's like a flashback to the China of 40 years ago: a poor country, where many eke out only a basic existence.
Wealth in China increasingly adheres to a class of entrepreneurs well connected with the Communist Party; 90 percent of China's millionaires, notes Australian political scientist David Goodman, are the offspring of high-ranking officials.
Forcible slum clearance in China often involves the destruction of organic urban villages: densely populated but chaotically planned former communities, swallowed up by the growth of nearby metropolises.
China's rise as a technological power makes advanced surveillance technology even more threatening, particularly as China enlists American tech firms, including Apple, to help perfect it.
To thrive in the years ahead and avoid a Japan-like decline, China should reinvent its cities as places both of economic opportunity and flourishing families.
https://www.city-journal.org/chinas-urban-crisis
Where dirt paths and narrow roads once prevailed in much of the country, today's China has more miles of interstate-quality freeways and more cars on the road than the United States.
It's like a flashback to the China of 40 years ago: a poor country, where many eke out only a basic existence.
Wealth in China increasingly adheres to a class of entrepreneurs well connected with the Communist Party; 90 percent of China's millionaires, notes Australian political scientist David Goodman, are the offspring of high-ranking officials.
Forcible slum clearance in China often involves the destruction of organic urban villages: densely populated but chaotically planned former communities, swallowed up by the growth of nearby metropolises.
China's rise as a technological power makes advanced surveillance technology even more threatening, particularly as China enlists American tech firms, including Apple, to help perfect it.
To thrive in the years ahead and avoid a Japan-like decline, China should reinvent its cities as places both of economic opportunity and flourishing families.
https://www.city-journal.org/chinas-urban-crisis
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