https://urbannomads.blogger.de/ Blogger.de cla_rei 2010-12-23T06:07:29Z en hourly 1 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z https://urbannomads.blogger.de/stories/1748231/ Blogger.de cla_rei Copyright © 2010 cla_rei 2010-12-23T06:07:29Z https://urbannomads.blogger.de/stories/1730175/ In China most of the bigger cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing) have an Urban Planning Museum, displaying the governmental city planning. The one in Shanghai it is located on the People Square from where you can have a fabulous bird eye view on the city. The Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center not only shows the latest urban development, but also shows Shanghai’s historical development. Centerpiece of the exhibition is a 1:500 city scale model that has to be updated permanently. By... Blogger.de cla_rei Copyright © 2010 cla_rei 2010-11-17T15:01:21Z https://urbannomads.blogger.de/stories/1743410/ Last week we got the opportunity to visit two special construction sites just outside of Shanghai. Both buildings will meet high energy and quality standards and are being realized in cooperation with the German Chamber of Commerce in China. One is part of the German Industrial Park in Kunshan as a starting point for German production business in China. At the time visiting, the first group of migrant workers had arrived to set up the dormitories for future migrant workers hired on this site. The... Blogger.de cla_rei Copyright © 2010 cla_rei 2010-12-13T10:21:42Z https://urbannomads.blogger.de/stories/1743340/ “Poverty steals a lot of things, like your home and car and food, but it also steals something on the inside. Help-Portrait feeds that something on the inside.” — Annie Downs, Help-Portrait Events Coordinator Help Portrait is a global movement initiated by the online photo community Flickr. Photographers around the world go out and take photos of people, who have never had the possibility to get their portrait shot – this year on Dezember 4th. While each city and community... Blogger.de cla_rei Copyright © 2010 cla_rei 2010-12-13T05:44:58Z https://urbannomads.blogger.de/stories/1743375/ relocation demolition construction building towers intensify! Blogger.de cla_rei Copyright © 2010 cla_rei 2010-12-13T07:43:21Z https://urbannomads.blogger.de/stories/1729461/ We are two architecture students from the TU Vienna, who are currently doing a research in Shanghai. We are researching about global vs. local work migration in Shanghai's construction industry and want to design an architectual response to the current situation. Of course part of our research is to get to know the city of Shanghai and its everyday life. Here we are posting some impressions we are collecting during our stay in Shanghai. essential for meetings in China - our business cards The... Blogger.de cla_rei Copyright © 2010 cla_rei 2010-11-16T08:17:11Z https://urbannomads.blogger.de/stories/1736035/ As China is turning towards globalization, the issue of the floating workforce is becoming more intense and complex. There are estimated over 130 million migrant workers in China today - people who are leaving their rural home town to find work and a better life in the city. But what do they really find? A colleague of us wasn’t expecting to find them, when he was looking for a toolset to repair a machine in his company in Minhang, a huge industrial zone south-west of Shanghai. Currently... Blogger.de cla_rei Copyright © 2010 cla_rei 2010-11-29T09:58:29Z Search this site: q https://urbannomads.blogger.de/search