Download or read book Towards Sustainable Cities in China written by Jingzhu Zhao and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To promote China’s sustainable city construction and development, this Brief has preliminarily used an assessment indicator system and development index of a sustainable city, based on a summary and analysis of the existing Sustainable City theories and practices both at home and aboard. Meanwhile, mainly based on the data from 2008, this Brief has made a tentative assessment of the development level of Sustainable City in some major Chinese cities.