Although the concept of ‘green building’ has been in Europe for more than two decades, it only landed in China 10 years ago.

EU-China collaboration for delivering better urban water infrastructure in China through integrated eco low carbon urban planning.

Energy generation in China must become more flexible and sustainable in the long term for the sake of the environment.

China’s drive towards sustainable development is inspiring some innovative urban planning solutions. Due to its relatively late industrialisation it has the opportunity to develop its new cities while learning from mistakes made in the West. Mark Harrison, Sector Director for Urban Planning and Consultancy for…

The environmental and social cost of producing semiconductors could be too high for China to bear.

Will China’s urbanisation process result in improvements to social welfare and an eventual reform of the hukou system?

Urbanisation in China’s new era

Europe and China’s efforts to promote the development of Smart Cities between the two regions have received support from the EU-China Dialogue Support Facility (PDSF II).

Massimo Bagnasco graduated in Architecture from the University of Genoa in 1996. He has worked for Progetto CMR since 2004 when he set up their offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin. In addition to being managing partner he also functions as client leader on many…

The SWITCH-Asia ‘Train the Trainers’ Project (the Project) has made a huge contribution to EU-China cooperation in the field of urbanisation.