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“The challenges facing China’s cities and metropolitan regions are daunting in scale and complexity; without exaggeration, the lives of millions will depend on how well China manages the continued growth of its cities in coming years,” says Yan Song, professor … Read more

The UNC Program on Chinese Cities presents: A Seminar by Dr. Jiang Pan Economic Counselor and Chief of the Economic Section of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the US Reading Room, New East 211 | Thursday, … Read more

What is the relationship between urban planning and air quality in China? Rapid growth and greatly expanded motor vehicle ownership and usage have contributed to serious air pollution across China. In 2013, 96 percent of key cities did not meet … Read more

At 2:28 pm on May 12, 2008, the Wènchuān dà dìzhèn (literally “Great Wenchuan earthquake”) registered 8.0 on the Richter magnitude scale. As the 21st deadliest earthquake of all time, the Wenchuan (also known as Sichuan) earthquake took more than … Read more

The UNC Center for Urban and Regional Studies and the Program on Chinese Cities presents: A Brown Bag Lunch Seminar by Xingjian Liu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Design, The University of Hong Kong Reading Room, New … Read more

The Center for Urban and Regional Studies, the Department of City and Regional Planning and the Program on Chinese Cities presents: A Brown Bag Lunch Seminar by Gu Xiaokun, Ph.D. Visiting Scholar at the Center for Urban & Regional Studies … Read more

Zhendong Luo, an associate professor at Nanjing University and a visiting scholar at CURS’ Program on Chinese Cities, will give a talk entitled “New Urbanization in China from the Bottom Up: The Characteristic Mechanisms & Trends of Rural Urbanization Driven … Read more