Chart of the Day: The Most Livable Cities
Rankism!
Shanghai's 2010 World Expo Exposes Challenges for China's Cities
(via michaelpoos)
China Railways Maglev CRH1 train which runs between Shanghai and Beijing is capable of average speeds of 431km/h.
Shanghai Transformation. A difference of 20 years (1990-2010) between both pictures.
Looks like two different worlds.
Click on the image above to launch a video player of IBM CEO Sam Palmisano’s full presentation at the Smarter Cities Summit in Shanghai. Rather than belabor the recap of the speech, I’ll let you watch and draw your own conclusions. The total video is 25 minutes. A Smarter Planet Blog
Smarter Cities Shanghai | Flickr
National Geographic News | 'Cities Trap More Carbon Than Rain Forests, Study Says'
Cities (above, Shanghai at night) store more carbon in their trees, buildings, and dirt than do dense tropical rain forests, a September 2009 study says.
Hub Culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hub Culture Zeitgeist Ranking is a city ranking produced annually since 2007. The most recent rankings were released in January 2010:
1. São Paulo 2009 Rank 7
2. Berlin 2009 Rank 2
3. San Francisco 2008 Rank: 12
4. Los Angeles 2009 Rank: 3
5. Shanghai 2009 Rank: 10
6. Zürich (New)
7. Sydney 2009 Rank: 5
8. New York 2009 Rank: 9
9. London 2009 Rank: 10
10. Hong Kong 2009 Rank: 8
11. Beijing 2009 Rank: 3
12. Washington DC 2009 Rank: 1
13. Cape Town (New)
14. Singapore 2009 Rank: 14
15. Tokyo 2009 Rank: 5
16. Copenhagen 2009 Rank: 20
17. Mexico D.F. 2009 Rank 19
18. Istanbul 2009 Rank: 18
19. Buenos Aires 2009 Rank: 14
20. Abu Dhabi (New)
Shanghai (via nekoko1206)
Every time I ride the DC Metro, I remember how much easy to understand and just downright better the Shanghai subway was. Notice the wayfinding: the sign above the door shows the next station for the train on that side of the platform as well as the station it’s coming from; the map next to those show you all stops after that, lined up with the direction the train is travelling (in DC it’s often on vertical pillars, which make little sense); and the arrows on the ground that show you where to wait when people get off the train. Not to mention the glass wall that prevents you from falling onto the tracks.
