Amid China’s unprecedented demographic shift, world-class urban designer Peter Calthorpe proposes rethinking the Asian economic giant’s cities to make them more sustainable going forward. Calthorpe said China should reconsider their current “high-density sprawl” where housing consists of blocks of apartment towers surrounded by highways. He also suggests that the 250 million strong Chinese middle-class veer away from an automobile-oriented American lifestyle. Both examples, he said, are unsustainable. Apart from the environmental and social impacts, there’s also massive pressure on energy supplies and air quality.
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