It's been said that even China's population of 1.4 billion couldn't fill all the empty homes. Many are high-rise apartments in gleaming new financial districts that initially failed to take off.

As megacities slow, multinationals from Starbucks to Skechers are chasing growth in China's inland cities, where brand loyalty is strong and competition is thinner In the heart of Neijiang, a ...

Cities in China face a constant dilemma as they race to improve their infrastructure to keep up with their country’s astonishing pace of economic development. How do they modernize without sacrificing ...

Kongjian Yu’s company is designing green spaces to absorb rainfall and mitigate natural disasters. In July 2012, a massive flash flood struck Beijing as rainfall in the Chinese capital caused the ...

In the heart of Neijiang, a third-tier city in China’s Sichuan province, a queue forms outside a newly opened Starbucks. It’s not the first in town, but it’s the first drive-through. In a city known ...