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Yale Environment 360: Coal money, generated by one of the world’s largest open-pit mines, has built a new Ordos, a municipality in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia. A modern city is rising there from the steppes, featuring monumental government buildings, an imposing museum, and row after row of apartment buildings and subdivisions, all designed to accommodate more than a million new residents. Spacious roads wait for cars to zoom between residential and commercial areas or feed into the highway that leads to the......
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Can Smarter Growth Guide China’s Urban Building Boom?
Posted by Yale Environment 360: David Biello on February 13th, 2012
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