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 ...

Workers hang a poster depicting the details of Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city. Du Yu / for China Daily TIANJIN - The coastal city of Tianjin aims to set a global benchmark for eco-cities, officials ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kyrgyz officials say they have signed a contract with foreign investors to start building an "eco-city" near the picturesque shores of Lake Issyk-Kul in the country's north, despite concerns 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, ...