Tangshan and Malmö share an economic background of reliance on old-style heavy industry, but both are moving towards the future in pursuit of a more sustainable urban fabric. In Malmö, pioneering sustainability concepts have been tried out in practice, in the transformation of part of the old industrial Western Harbour into housing, business and recreational…
Cities are now home to more than half of the global human population, and the urban share will continue to increase. Two areas of great concern in this context are waste management and clean energy provision. Tangshan, a city with ambitious plans for its prestigious venture of constructing the Caofeidian International Eco-city, addresses these issues…
TangMa Learning is conceived by the sister cities of Malmö (Sweden) and Tangshan (China) as a new programme with the TangMa Project aimed at facilitating education in sustainable development to target groups outside the ingoing programmes of sustainable urban design (SUD) and utilisation of organic waste as a resource for urban renewable energy (OWRE). With…