The cities of the future are envisioned as green oases powered by clean, renewable energy. A joint Chinese-Singaporean project hopes to provide a case study for just such cities. Binhai Eco City is ...

The concept of a city has always been limited to the practicalities of expansion and growth. If a city is well located, it will grow, if not, it will struggle. That idea has always seemed self-evident ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I travel the world reporting on emerging markets and China overseas. Two hundred and eighty-five. That’s the number of new purpose ...

A new eco-city is being built in Mongolia. Designed by German city planners and complying to strict environmental standards, Maidar City is to become the new political and religious center of the ...

In 2008, the Ecocity World Summit convened in San Francisco to prescribe the "eco-city" concept as the anti-dote to the escalating threats of resource scarcity, climate change and the massive ...

Hamburg-Harburg Harbor, Germany, is on the cusp of it’s first nearly entirely sustainable creative-industrial complex. The development ECO CITY, designed by tec architecture with the help of ARUP, ...

Scientists and researchers work in Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City, which aims to be a hub for research, development, innovation and entrepreneurship. The eco-city provides an environment for testing ...

A panoramic view of China-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City in Tianjin's Binhai New Area. [Photo provided to CHINA DAILY] Twelve teams from China and Singapore recently participated in an eco-city ...

Instead, as its first residents moved in this month, they found it is remarkably like most other Chinese cities: shrouded in smog and depressingly grey. But then the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco City, ...