Fortune, Dec 3, 2012

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(1) Brian Dumaine, Rethinking China's Cities. Urban desiner Peter Calthorpe is working to make the country's explosive growth more sustainable.
http://management.fortune.cnn.co ... horpe-china-cities/

Calthorpe says:

"The urban Chinese live in neighborhoods where buildings average 10 stories, whereas in America it's two stories.

"As the Chinese create more and more superblocks of apartments and giant shopping centers, they're destroying a whole stratum of their traditional walkable society. * * * Each superblock has repetitious, high-rise apartment towers with a total of around 5,000 units. My design is made up of small urban blocks with green courtyards, each having only 500 units, where you can walk or bike to eat and shop -- where neighbors can actually recognize one another. The buildings will vary from four stories to 30 stories. And this design will house the same number of people per acre while leaving enough open space for parks and greenways.

(2) Joshua Cooper Ramo, Globalism Goes Backward. They forget to tell us globalization has a reverse gear. Now companies and countries need to get ready for the 'inside economy.'
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2 ... l-economy-backward/

(a) The only two mentions about China in this article

"For most of the past 20 years China's development was driven by opening to the outside and by low labor costs that made it the world's factory. But the next 10 years will be defined by fixing, urgently, its broken internal systems. As officials in Beijing noted last year when explaining their new five-year plan: 'The golden age of globalization may come to a halt.'

"We shouldn't be worrying so much now about losing our future to China and India -- countries that relied on outside-led growth for their economic muscle tone -- but rather about losing our future to our own inability to adjust.

(b) Excerpt in the window of print:
(i) Beijing's unsettling view: "The golden age of globalization may come to a halt."
(ii) Why does Silicon Valley grow? Its insider culture of cooperation.

(c) My comment:
(i) The mentions are ambiguious, so I do not really know what they mean.
(ii) There is no need to read the rest of the text.