New Chinese and Indian Cities

As the Chinese and Indian people begin to enjoy lifestyles more like that of Europe and North America, one consequence is that they will migrate to cities. Currently these countries are mostly rural but this will change.

In China new cities will need to be built and are being built. From what I have observed of India, her cities don’t have the infrastructure for their current growing populations, let alone being swamped by 800 million people.

So it is with great interest that I am following the proposed city of Dongtan in China. It shall be built according to world best practice, with the best of British sustainable design thinking. So lets see what a new city, designed to have a low ecological footprint, looks like.