Global Cities - Beijing

Product Description

Beijing is the cultural and political heart of China, the world's most populous nation. Since China adopted an open market economy, Beijing has been racing to catch up with developed cities around the world, throwing up new buildings, and controversially tearing down its old areas of small lanes and houses to make way for new developments. This race to progress has created huge problems with pollution, water shortages in the city and surrounding provinces, and massive traffic congestion.