21st Century (2000–present)

Tianjin Eco-City (Sino–Singapore)

2008– · China · East Asia – China · Ecological, landscape-led, and resilience planning · Planned by Tianjin + Singapore

Labelled top-down master-plan scheme of the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City showing its modular planning hierarchy: the 400x400 m 'Eco-Cell', aggregated into an 800x800 m 'Eco-Community', then a 1600x · copyrighted

Core idea

Low-carbon eco-city on salt pans

Why it matters

International eco-urbanism pilot

Description

The Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City (from 2008) is a planned district near Tianjin developed jointly by China and Singapore on degraded, salt-pan land, with quantified targets for green building, renewable energy, water recycling, and transit-oriented layout.

Significance

Tianjin Eco-City is a flagship of intergovernmental eco-city collaboration and the attempt to make sustainability measurable and replicable, exporting Singapore's planning expertise into China's vast urbanization.

What shaped it

Sustainable development (Brundtland) (1987)
World becomes majority urban (2007)
Kyoto Protocol (1997)
Transit-oriented development (TOD) (1993)

Plans it influenced

Xiongan New Area (2017–)

Sources

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