Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- List of Tables and Figures
- Introduction
- Part I Strategic Considerations
- Part II Sustainable Cities Around the World
- Chapter 7 Urban Dreams of Global Sustainability
- Chapter 8 The Promise and Pitfalls of Chattanooga's Entrepreneurial “Sustainability” Strategy
- Chapter 9 Sustainability Comes to Okotoks, Alberta
- Chapter 10 Vienna's Westbahnhof Sustainable Urban Implantation – The City-as-a-Hill
- Chapter 11 The Success of SUCCESS: The Chinese Village as Catalyst of Future Chinese Sustainable Cities
- Chapter 12 The Long March to Sustainability in China
- Closing Thoughts
- Appendix
- References
- Index
Chapter 12 - The Long March to Sustainability in China
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- List of Tables and Figures
- Introduction
- Part I Strategic Considerations
- Part II Sustainable Cities Around the World
- Chapter 7 Urban Dreams of Global Sustainability
- Chapter 8 The Promise and Pitfalls of Chattanooga's Entrepreneurial “Sustainability” Strategy
- Chapter 9 Sustainability Comes to Okotoks, Alberta
- Chapter 10 Vienna's Westbahnhof Sustainable Urban Implantation – The City-as-a-Hill
- Chapter 11 The Success of SUCCESS: The Chinese Village as Catalyst of Future Chinese Sustainable Cities
- Chapter 12 The Long March to Sustainability in China
- Closing Thoughts
- Appendix
- References
- Index
Summary
Introduction
China, the sleeping giant, slumbers no more. Whether in climate change strategies, the global food crisis, economic globalization, growing world ecological scarcities (including oil) or the urban-rural balance, China is a major player in exacerbating, mitigating or overcoming these portentous twenty-first century problems. In its drive toward world-class status and its fever pitch efforts toward economic development, this Asian powerhouse has raised its voice in the global dialogue on sustainable development. Even as its city-building programs have moved with unrelenting speed to construct a projected 300 new cities between 2005 and 2010 (Jao, 2005), it has looked both inwards and outwards to experts with ideas for fostering economic and cultural development within its rural countryside.
One such program was the Oikodrom – the Vienna Institute for Urban Sustainability's Sustainable User Concepts for China Engaging Scientific Scenarios (SUCCESS), highlighted in the previous chapter. SUCCESS's research and policy strategy was in many respects convergent with the growing thrust of various Chinese projects and programs initiated across its landmass. Over the last ten years or so, these programs have come to view the village as a focus of rural development work in China and as the appropriate scale for intervention in China by native political elites and domestic and foreign scholars (Brugmann, 1996; Hu, 2008; Stone, 2006).
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- The City as Fulcrum of Global Sustainability , pp. 207 - 224Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2011