Yves Tiberghien, director of UBC’s Institute of Asian Research, spoke to the Vancouver Sun about China’s efforts to make its cities more sustainable as they expand.
“You could see that, in Beijing in the ’90s, they were going largely with cars, so they built all those massive ring-road highways,” he said. “But since about 2005, the focus has really gone to subways massively; in Beijing, they are adding a new line almost every year. They are trying to do this type of thinking across all aspects of urban life.”
The article also appeared in the Ottawa Citizen, Regina Leader-Post and The Province.
