The sublime chaos of Chongqing
Of all the places in China that I’ve gotten lost in, my favorite might be Chongqing. More specifically, its central district of …
What prospects for Uber and its Chinese rivals?
A private driver told me “Didi Dache is still new, so who knows if the government might ban it later?” It’s a line that illustrates the difficult relationship that firms on the cutting edge of business innovation often have with Chinese authorities.
Why are Chinese property advertisements putting office towers on aircraft carriers?
Of the topics that keep China watchers awake at night, two of the most-discussed are aircraft carriers and real estate. China launched its …
Hu-Su-Zhe-Wan: China’s latest economic super-region
Move over, Beijing. Just weeks after national economic planners declared they would build the area around China’s capital into a 100-million strong …
Want to get on the right side of China’s regional inequality? Follow the 4 C’s
Analyzing China at the prefectural level both confirms and complicates widely held views of the nation’s wealth gap. Let’s summarize the patterns as the “the four C’s” for besting China’s regional inequality.
Boluo Village, a Kunming “village-in-the-city”
This post is about one of China’s most unique urban spaces, the so-called “village in the city” (城中村), and some personal observations …
San Francisco Masses and Voids
This being a China blog, I don’t intend to dwell on non-China topics, but since I went through the trouble to establish …
Masses and Voids: An Introduction
One of the most valuable methods for studying urban spaces that I picked up in graduate school was masses and voids. It’s a …