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Beijing has suffered from a series of “urban diseases”: traffic congestion, air pollution, rocketing house prices… The “focuses” emerge in systems and organs of transport, environment (air, water) and housing, but the root cause seems to lie in “population”, behind which hide the calamities caused by economic structure and layout, transport and urban planning, etc.
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Mao, X. (2014). Several Prescriptions for Beijing’s Urban Disease. In: Li, X., Pan, J. (eds) China Green Development Index Report 2012. Current Chinese Economic Report Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54178-0_13
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