Category: Public-Private Partnerships
18 September, 2012 (10:00) | China, Cities, Global news, Government, History, Housing, Law, Public-Private Partnerships, Speculation, Urbanization, Zoning |
[Continued from yesterday's Part 3A, and the preceding Part 1A, Part 1B, Part 2A, and Part 2B.] By:David A. Smith So far, in presenting my three-pronged theory of China’s political and policy approach to economic development, we’ve shown that its first two premises no longer work: What China doesn’t show: a slum [...]
17 September, 2012 (10:00) | China, Cities, Global news, Government, History, Housing, Law, Public-Private Partnerships, Speculation, Urbanization, Zoning |
[Continued from last week's Part 2B, and the preceding Part 1A, Part 1B, and Part 2A.] By:David A. Smith Now, four full days’ into this extended essay presenting a theory about China’s urban policy failures, we’ve seen that China can no longer wall off the world outside, nor can it any longer operate [...]
13 September, 2012 (10:00) | China, Cities, Global news, Government, History, Housing, Law, Public-Private Partnerships, Speculation, Urbanization, Zoning |
[Continued from yesterday's Part 2A, and the preceding Part 1A and Part 1B.] By:David A. Smith As we saw yesterday, up through at least 1989, China operated on the premise that a successful society, even its infrastructure and property development, can be centrally dictated by an imperial economy. Twenty years later, everything [...]
12 September, 2012 (10:00) | China, Cities, Global news, Government, History, Housing, Law, Public-Private Partnerships, Speculation, Urbanization, Zoning |
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1B and the preceding Part 1A.] By:David A. Smith Yesterday’s post, Part 1B of a six-post three-part thesis, showed that while China’s leadership presumes that nothing outside of China matters, the last twenty years have witnessed such a comprehensive revolution in global economics and finance that today the fastest [...]
24 August, 2012 (09:00) | China, Cities, Global news, Government, History, Housing, Law, Public-Private Partnerships, Speculation, Urbanization, Zoning |
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1A.] By:David A. Smith Yesterday’s post, the first in a very long sequence, postulated that China has operated on the premise, –true for nearly all of its history until virtually the present – that only China mattered, and everything beyond the Middle Kingdom could be held at arm’s length, [...]