Index

• Action Plan on the Prevention and Control of Air Pollution, 88
• Activists. See also Protest
  • air quality and, 61
  • environmental, 10, 245 (see also Environmental issues)
  • globalization from below and, 20
  • goods movement and, 267
  • Hong Kong and, 61
  • limited resources and, 242
  • Los Angeles and, 109
  • new generation of, 240
  • policy change and, 245, 252, 258, 262–263
  • Villaraigosa and, 10
  • water and, 109
• Adair, Ben, 233
• African-Americans, 215, 233
• Agriculture
  • air quality and, 88, 133
  • Alien Land Acts, 133
  • California Urban Agriculture Incentive Zones Act, 312n83
  • ecotourism and, 154
  • fertilizers, 123, 132, 149, 161, 299n12
  • food and, 16, 20 (see also Food)
  • goods movement and, 34
  • Hong Kong and, 136
  • immigrants and, 131–133
  • increased production, 34
  • industrial, 16, 104, 121, 123, 133
  • Los Angeles and, 8, 131–134
  • open spaces and, 174, 176, 214, 234, 240
  • policy change and, 255, 258
  • Spanish colonists and, 131–132
  • sustainable, 137, 148–149, 158, 161, 163–164
  • traditional practices for, 16
  • urban development and, 7–8, 16, 136, 141, 154–155, 157–158, 160, 255
  • water and, 97–98, 104, 106, 112, 115–127
• Air Pollution Control Ordinance (APCO), 74
• Air Pollution Index (API), 76
• Air quality
  • Action Plan on the Prevention and Control of Air Pollution, 88
  • activists and, 61
  • agriculture and, 88, 133
  • American Lung Association and, 70
  • automobiles and, 66–70, 77, 85, 90–92, 94, 179–180, 183
  • Beijing, 63–65, 72, 84–88, 94
  • Black Monday and, 66
  • built environment and, 76
  • California Air Resources Board, 42
  • California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), 57, 215
  • canned air and, 61, 64
  • catalytic converters and, 68–70
  • China, 18, 59, 63–66, 80, 84–94
  • Civic Exchange and, 3, 76, 82, 92
  • Clean Air Act, 68–70
  • Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP), 1, 10, 55, 92, 254, 256, 272n41, 276n73
  • Clean Air Asia, 61, 65
  • Clean Air Network (CAN), 61, 65, 277n2
  • Clean Air Plan, 58, 90–93, 248, 251
  • defeat devices and, 90
  • diesel vehicles and, 26–27, 40–42, 51, 54–56, 66, 77, 79, 83–84, 90–91, 245
  • emissions and, 1, 15, 18, 39–43, 47–50, 55–59, 66–69, 72–73, 78–86, 90–94, 183, 196, 245
  • Fair Winds Charter and, 1–2, 26, 50–51, 57–58
  • filters, 61, 88
  • food and, 133, 300n14
  • gas masks, 61–63, 88
  • gasoline and, 68–70
  • Guangdong, 72, 80–82, 91, 93
  • “hairy nose” campaign, 61
  • haze, 7, 66, 73, 80, 86, 89, 94
  • health issues and, 16, 61, 63, 65–66, 69–70, 74–84, 87–88, 91
  • Hedley Environmental Index (HEI) and, 76
  • Hong Kong, 39, 50, 58, 61, 65–66, 72–76, 80–87, 90–94, 183, 281n37, 282n40
  • labor and, 98
  • land use and, 70, 76, 78
  • lead and, 68–69
  • Los Angeles, 7, 40–43, 58–59, 61, 62f, 65–72, 76–80, 85, 89, 92–94, 179–180, 187
  • lung issues and, 41, 45, 70–71, 77–79, 83
  • manufacturing and, 68–69, 77, 80–81, 90, 93–94
  • MATES and, 78–79
  • mobile source air toxics (MSATs), 40–41
  • nitrogen oxides (NO_x), 14, 39, 48, 54–55, 68, 77, 79, 83, 90, 183
  • Occupy Central and, 207
  • open spaces and, 42, 55
  • ordinances and, 74
  • particulate matter, 14, 45, 51, 54–55, 69–70, 79, 84–86, 91, 183, 256
  • Pearl River Delta, 72–73, 80, 82–83, 87–88, 92
  • pedestrians and, 240
  • policy change, 248, 251–258, 261–263
  • population effects on, 78, 83, 88, 93–94
  • production and, 69, 80, 82, 85, 88–89, 93–95
  • protest, 61, 68, 88
  • real estate and, 76
  • retailers and, 63
  • safety and, 76, 85–86
  • Shanghai, 63, 86
  • Shenzhen, 72, 92–93
  • ships and, 39
  • smog, 7, 61, 62f, 66–67, 72–73, 80, 87, 89, 92, 94
  • smoke, 66, 73–74, 77
  • State Council on the Promotion of Ecological Civilization, 89
  • stress and, 77, 86
  • sulfur content of fuel, 1, 49–50, 55, 58, 73, 80, 83, 91
  • sulfur dioxide (SO₂), 39, 40, 49–50, 69, 74, 80–83, 86, 91
  • sulfur oxides (SO_x), 48, 55
  • toxic air contaminants (TACs), 41
  • trucks and, 63, 66, 77–79, 94
  • urban development and, 49
  • visibility and, 61, 66–67, 72–73
  • VOCs and, 82
• Air Quality Act, 67
• Air Quality Guidelines (AQGs), 74–75
• Air quality objectives (AQOs), 74–75
• AIS (automatic identification system), 82
• Alameda Corridor, 10, 35, 42
• Alaska, 104, 195, 288n14
• Alfalfa, 131
• Alien Land Acts, 133
• All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), 308n70
• American Lung Association, 70
• American President Line (APL), 50
• American Trucking Association, 56
• Anhui Province, 36
• Apartments, 52, 135, 194, 213–214
• Aqueducts, 101–102, 104, 108–109t, 123, 253
• Architecture, 7, 179, 181, 206, 222, 237
• ArroyoFest, 196–198, 200–201, 240
• Arroyo Seco, 178
• Asian Games, 236
• Asparagus, 131
• Automobile Club of Southern California, 179
• Automobiles
  • air quality and, 66–70, 77, 85, 90–92, 94, 179–180, 183
  • alternatives to, 24
  • bicycle collisions with, 186
  • Carmageddon, 181
  • carpools, 181
  • car-related institutions, 179
  • catalytic converters, 68–70
  • China, 85, 91–92, 94, 188, 191–192, 195
  • culture of, 179–180
  • defeat devices, 90
  • driver’s licenses, 320n39
  • electric, 195
  • gasoline and, 68–70, 178
  • Hong Kong, 174–175, 181, 199
  • hybrid, 192, 200
  • impact of, 181, 184–187
  • Jackson on, 319n30
  • lead and, 68–69
  • Los Angeles, 7, 9, 66–70, 77, 85, 138, 177–179, 184–187, 196–197, 202, 319n35
  • parking and, 8, 138–139, 177, 179, 181–182, 184–185, 192, 214, 232–233, 237
  • phantom trips, 185
  • rapid increase in ownership of, 243
  • road rage, 180, 186
• Autopia, 7
• Avian influenza, 135–136

• Bai ethnic group, 248
• Banham, Reyner, 7
• Barcelona, 75
• Barges, 26–27, 37
• Bartholomew, Harlan, 177
• Basic Law, 18, 32, 84, 252
• Beans, 131–132, 150
• Beef, 150
• Beijing
  • air quality, 63–65, 72, 84–88, 94
  • food, 155
  • gas masks, 63
  • gated communities, 236
  • global city status of, 18
  • niche markets in, 314n93
  • open spaces, 206, 236
  • policy change, 249
  • regional geographies, 22
  • Tier 1 developments, 22
  • transportation, 173, 188–195
• Bicycles
  • advocacy for, 181, 201
  • ArroyoFest, 196–198, 200–201, 240
  • automobile collisions with, 186
  • China, 187–190, 195–196, 322n60
  • CicLAvia, 200–201, 206–207, 240, 242, 255
  • commuting to work by, 184–185
  • complete streets and, 11
  • constraints for, 182
  • fatalities, 188
  • Hong Kong, 167, 169, 182, 224, 231
  • I-110 closure, 196–197
  • lack of planning for, 169
  • lanes for, 184, 189, 201
  • Los Angeles, 42, 175, 177, 184–187, 196, 200–203, 206, 227, 262
  • Mobility 2035 plan, 202, 227, 242, 255, 326n86
  • paths for, 11, 184, 201, 231
  • policy change, 262
  • racks for, 227
  • share programs, 189, 201, 322n60
  • transportation and, 11, 42, 167, 169, 175–177, 181–190, 195–196, 200–203, 206, 224, 227, 231, 240, 255, 262
• Big Water Project, 104
• Billionaire’s Beach, 233
• Bird’s Nest, 91–92
• Black Monday, 66
• Black rainstorms, 98
• BNSF, 35, 42
• Bohai, 48–49
• Booth, Veronica, 1–2
• Bottled water, 117, 125–126
• Bradley, Tom, 10, 34, 254
• Brand names, 27, 126, 152
• Brazil, 136
• Brown, Jerry, 90, 107, 109, 254, 279n15, 291n28
• Buildings Ordinance, 210, 218–219
• Built environment
  • air quality and, 76
  • Civic Exchange and, 3
  • food and, 143
  • Hong Kong, 143, 248
  • impact of, 20
  • Los Angeles, 178, 181, 184, 212–214, 216, 242, 256
  • open spaces and, 24, 212–214, 216, 242
  • policy change, 248, 256
  • transportation and, 178, 181, 184
• Buses, 195
  • China Motor Bus (CMB) Company, 171
  • Citybus, 171–172
  • double-decker, 172
  • Hong Kong, 171–172, 174–175, 182–183, 196, 199–200, 230, 240
  • Kowloon Motor Bus (KMB), 171–172, 317n17
  • Los Angeles, 178–181, 186
  • New World First Bus, 171–172
  • open spaces and, 207, 230, 240
• “Business for Clean Air Joint Conference

• Cabbage, 131
• California Air Resources Board (CARB), 42, 79, 90, 254, 273n49, 279n15
• California Aqueduct, 102, 123
• California Department of Transportation (CALTRANS), 196
• California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), 57, 215
• California Urban Agriculture Incentive Zones Act, 312n83
• Canada, 104, 195
• Cancer, 41–42, 77, 83, 122
• Canned air, 61, 64
• Cantonese culture, 149, 235
• Capitalism, 13, 113, 132, 150
• Carbon, 15, 18, 68, 77, 94, 197, 261
• Carcinogens, 41, 83, 116
• Cargill, 150, 154
• Cargo handling, 29–33, 37–38, 42, 47, 55, 230
• Carmageddon, 181
• Carrefour, 139, 141, 151, 302n30, 303n37
• Catalytic converters, 68–70
• Cattle, 131, 135, 222
• Causeway Bay, 196
• Center for Law in the Public Interest
• Cervero, Robert, 194
• Chan Shun-hing, 135
• Cheap goods, 17, 24, 27, 35–36, 136, 189
• Chen Guangbiao, 63–64
• Cheng Yu-tung, 171–172
• Chernobyl nuclear power plant, 257
• Cheung, Billy, 49
• Cheung Kong Holdings, 142
• Chiang Kai-shek, 256
• Chicken, 118, 121, 129–131, 135–136, 142, 150–151, 153, 159, 307n65
• Children’s Health Study, 79
• China. See also specific cities by name
  • Action Plan on the Prevention and Control of Air Pollution, 88
  • air quality, 18, 59, 63–66, 80, 84–94
  • All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), 308n70
  • automobiles, 85, 91–92, 94, 188, 191–192, 195
  • bicycles, 187–190, 195–196, 322n60
  • buses, 195
  • Cantonese culture, 149, 235
  • container port ranking of, 17t, 266n17, 274n57
  • Cultural Revolution, 13, 113, 192
  • Deng Xiaoping, 13, 164, 257
  • dragon-head enterprises, 150
  • Eastern Han period, 46
  • embargoes and, 12, 29
  • emissions, 47–49
  • environmental NGOs (ENGOs) and, 259–261
  • food, 18, 129–142, 146–155, 159–164
  • Fujian Province, 13, 30, 260
  • geography of, 22–23
  • goods movement, 25–49, 52–59
  • government NGOs (GONGOs) and, 260
  • Great Leap Forward, 112–113
  • Green Beagle and, 65
  • health issues, 16–17, 28, 49, 53, 55, 59, 63, 87–88, 122, 126, 128, 154–156, 162, 189, 235, 260
  • household responsibility system, 148
  • housing, 22, 188, 235
  • immigrants, 6, 149, 154, 194, 234–235, 237, 239, 262, 267n20
  • Land Ministry, 121
  • land use, 148, 192, 238
  • Local Governments for Sustainability group (ICLEI), 197–199
  • manufacturing, 16, 19, 22, 26–27, 30, 46, 93, 152–153, 187–192, 195, 260
  • Mao and, 13, 45–46, 148, 256, 260
  • middle class, 86, 92, 152, 154, 195, 236–237, 242
  • Ministry of Environmental Protection, 48, 149
  • Ministry of Transport, 49, 53
  • modernization, 16–18, 121, 123, 150, 153, 155, 235–236, 242–243
  • National Earthquake Bureau, 52–53
  • National People’s Congress, 64, 121
  • New Urbanization policy, 238, 242–243
  • noise, 236
  • Olympics, 65, 92, 189–190, 193
  • open spaces, 55, 205, 208, 234, 236–239, 242–243
  • pedestrians, 187
  • police, 52–53, 260
  • policy change, 245–253, 256–263
  • pollution, 20, 63, 65–66, 85–93, 98, 119–123, 149, 154, 187, 192, 237, 242, 257–258, 261, 263
  • population issues, 16, 18–19, 22–23, 88, 93–94, 113, 119–121, 123, 126, 132, 149, 151, 153, 188, 191, 194, 234–236, 238, 267n20, 286n1, 287n2
  • Port Community Mitigation Fund, 54–55
  • Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution law, 86
  • protest, 205
  • public space, 234
  • rail, 17, 25, 32, 187, 192–196
  • real estate, 142, 236, 238
  • right to the city, 262–263
  • riots, 170, 256
  • Roman Empire and, 46
  • SARS and, 18, 135, 248, 252
  • South-North Water Diversion project, 120, 124, 250, 294n50
  • State Council on the Promotion of Ecological Civilization, 89
  • Tiananmen Square, 18, 205, 253, 258–259
  • tier cities, 22, 86
  • tourism, 18–19, 64, 198
  • transportation, 166, 168–174, 187–203
  • trucks, 54, 63, 94, 273n46
  • Tyson and, 129–131, 139, 150
  • urban development, 49, 98, 122, 173, 237
  • water, 18, 111–114, 117, 119–128, 258
  • world cities of, 5
  • as world’s factory, 6–7, 18–19, 46, 120
  • WTO and, 46–47
  • Yangtze River, 47–49, 88, 121, 124, 195, 248
• China Light and Power, 258
• China Motor Bus (CMB) Company, 171
• China Real Estate Chamber of Commerce, 238
• China Shipping, 47, 53–54, 56–57
• China Water Risk, 121, 258
• Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning, 88
• Chinese Ecological Agriculture (CEA) initiative, 161
• Choi, Francis, 26
• Choi, Roy, 145
• Chow Tai Fook Enterprises, 171–172
• CicLAvia, 200–201, 206–207, 240, 242, 255
• Citizens Party, 247
• Citrus products, 34, 131–132
• Citybus Limited, 171–172
• City of Quartz (Davis), 223
• Civic Exchange
  • air quality and, 3, 76, 82, 92
  • built environment and, 3
  • environmental issues and, 2–3, 38–39, 49–50, 76, 82, 92, 97, 247–248, 259, 272n41, 338n3
  • goods movement and, 2–4, 38–40, 49–50, 76, 82, 92, 97, 248, 259
  • policy change and, 248, 259
  • water and, 97
• Civil rights, 69, 180
• Clean Air Act, 68–70
• Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP), 1, 10, 55, 92, 254, 256, 272n41, 276n73
• Clean Air Asia, 61, 65
• Clean Air Network (CAN), 61, 65, 277n2
• Clean Air Plan, 58, 90–93, 248, 251
• Clean and Safe Ports Coalition, 254
• Clean Trucks Plan, 55–56, 254
• Climate change, 16, 18, 94, 106, 110, 117, 120, 215, 256, 262
• Coal, 18, 66, 80, 85–86, 94, 261
• Coalition for a Safe Environment, 254
• Coca Cola, 125, 160
• Cole, Edward, 69
• Colorado River, 7, 101–102, 106, 108–109, 115
• Committee of 25, 9
• Communist Party, 89, 248, 313n90
• Community Redevelopment Agencies (CRAs), 141
• Community-supported agriculture (CSA), 154–156, 161–163
• Con Agra, 160
• Concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), 129
• Consumers
  • cheap goods and, 17, 24–25, 27, 35–36, 136, 189
  • food and, 136–142, 150, 152, 154–156, 159, 162–163
  • goods movement and, 25, 27, 35–36
  • water and, 118, 120
• Container Committee, 30
• Cortese, Ross, 223
• Coyle, Mayvis, 165, 167–168, 186
• Crawford, Margaret, 235
• Crespi, Juan, 131
• Crime, 223, 236
• Cross Harbour Tunnel, 170
• CSAs. See Community-supported agriculture
• Cultural Revolution, 13, 113, 192

• Dairy Farm, 142–143
• Dams, 86, 101, 124, 250
• Danone, 126
• Davis, Mike, 8, 223
• Day, Jennifer, 194
• Daya Bay Nuclear Plant, 257–258
• Defeat devices, 90
• DeGeneres, Ellen, 167
• Delicatessen, The, 143
• Democracy, 15–16, 205, 207, 258
• Demolition, 137, 229, 236
• Deng Xiaoping, 13, 164, 257
• Designing Hong Kong, 166, 231
• Des Voeux Road, 182, 240–241
• Diesel vehicles
  • diesel death zones, 40–41
  • Los Angeles and, 40–42
  • mobile source air toxics (MSATs) and, 40–41
  • particulate matter and, 51, 54–55
  • traffic counts, 79
  • transportation and, 26–27, 40–42, 51, 54–56, 66, 77, 79, 83–84, 90–91, 245
• District councils, 166, 225–226, 240, 333n72
• Docks, 33, 40, 42, 54–55, 57, 170, 229
• Dongguan, 17, 22, 97
• Dongjiang (East River), 52, 97–98, 112–114, 118–119, 124, 286n1
• Dragon-head enterprises, 150
• Dreyfuss, Robert, 189
• Drinking, 115–125
• Drought, 106–113, 255–256, 290n27

• Early Light Industrial Co., Ltd., 26
• East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, 246, 254, 273n47
• Economic crisis of 2008–2009, 47, 55–56, 191, 193
• Ecotourism, 154
• Edmonds, Richard Louis, 341n23
• Eggs, 135
• Electronics, 30, 94, 97
• Elites, 88, 213–214, 221–222, 258
• Embargoes, 12, 29
• Emissions
  • carbon, 15, 18, 68, 77, 94, 197, 261
  • China, 47–49
  • cleaner fuels, 59
  • Clean Trucks program, 55–56, 254
  • coal, 18, 66, 80, 85–86, 94, 261
  • diesel, 40, 54, 91, 245
  • environmental issues, 1, 15, 18, 39–43, 47–50, 55–59, 66–69, 72–73, 78–86, 90–94, 183, 196, 245
  • Fair Winds Charter, 1–2, 26, 50–51, 57–58
  • greenhouse, 94, 183
  • Hong Kong, 39–40, 80–84, 93–94, 183, 196
  • Los Angeles, 40–43, 68–69, 78
  • policy change, 245, 261
  • roadside, 39
  • ships, 1, 39–40, 47–50, 57–58
  • trucks, 55
  • zero-emission technology, 39
• Energizing Kowloon East Office (EKEO), 231
• Entrepreneurs, 12, 26, 63
• Environmental Defense Fund, 67, 254
• Environmental issues
  • activism for, 10, 245
  • air quality, 3, 76 (see also Air quality)
  • Chernobyl, 257
  • China, 3, 17–18, 20
  • Civic Exchange and, 2–4, 38–40, 49–50, 76, 82, 92, 97, 247–248, 259, 338n3
  • Clean Air Plan, 58, 90–93, 248, 251
  • climate change, 16, 18, 94, 106, 110, 117, 120, 215, 256, 262
  • coal, 18, 66, 80, 85–86, 94, 261
  • community voices, 1
  • diesel vehicles, 26–27, 40–42, 51, 54–56, 66, 77, 79, 83–84, 90–91, 246
  • ecotourism, 154
  • emissions, 1, 15, 18, 39–43, 47–50, 55–59, 66–69, 72–73, 78–86, 90–94, 183, 196, 245, 261
  • Fair Winds Charter, 1–2, 26, 50–51, 57–58
  • fertilizers, 123, 132, 149, 161, 299n12
  • Green Beagle and, 65
  • green belts, 42, 211–212
  • greenhouse gases, 94, 183
  • Greenpeace East Asia and, 92, 258
  • hazards, 5, 8–9, 23, 70, 129, 132, 154, 156, 161–163, 246, 254, 260
  • Hedley Environmental Index (HEI), 76
  • homelessness and, 11–12, 147, 221, 229, 262
  • Hong Kong, 2, 15–16, 20
  • horizontal expansion, 7–11, 104, 160, 217, 253
  • hybrid vehicles, 192, 200
  • impact assessments, 7, 10, 16–20, 23, 27, 35–36, 38, 40, 42, 74–75, 95, 120, 158, 187, 237, 242, 248, 259–263, 294n50
  • lead, 68–70, 132, 267n3
  • Los Angeles, 2, 8–9
  • Ministry of Environmental Protection, 48, 149
  • “Moving Forward Together” conference, 1–2
  • Natural Resources Defense Council, 67, 254
  • nitrogen oxides (NO_x), 14, 39, 48, 54–55, 68, 77, 79, 83, 90, 183
  • noise, 38, 40, 42–43, 74, 180–184, 187, 219, 225, 236
  • nuclear power, 257–258, 340n18
  • organic food, 24, 116, 118, 136–137, 140–142, 147, 154–156, 159–162, 207
  • paraxylene (PX), 260–261
  • parks, 8, 19, 42–43, 55, 78, 137, 177–178, 180, 202, 205–206, 209, 211, 221–222, 230, 233, 239
  • particulate matter, 14, 45, 51, 54–55, 69–70, 79, 84–86, 91, 183, 256
  • pesticides, 16, 118, 123, 132, 149
  • petroleum, 9, 83
  • poisons, 132, 143
  • policy change, 51–52, 72, 78–79, 245–263
  • right to the city, 262–263
  • South-North Water Diversion Project, 120, 124, 250
  • sprawl, 7, 9, 44, 160, 210, 214, 236, 242, 255–256
  • State Council on the Promotion of Ecological Civilization, 89
  • stress and, 24, 43, 77, 86, 121–122, 183, 187, 229, 245, 263
  • sulfur content of fuel, 1, 49–50, 55, 58, 73, 80, 83, 91
  • sulfur dioxide (SO₂), 39, 40, 49–50, 69, 74, 80–83, 86, 91
  • sulfur oxides (SO_x), 48, 55
  • sustainability, 137, 148–149, 158, 161, 163–164, 194, 203, 238, 258
  • THE Impact Project, 51–52
  • toxicity, 9, 40–41, 52, 69, 78, 82, 154, 183
  • transportation, 165 (see also Transportation)
  • Urban & Environmental Policy Institute and, 2–3, 156
  • urban, 3–5, 7, 11, 20–24, 67, 85, 95, 128, 155, 159, 164, 168, 232, 237–238, 242–243, 248, 252, 256, 262–263
  • water, 97 (see also Water)
• Environmental justice, 51–52, 72, 78–79, 246–247, 254, 262–263
• Environmental NGOs (ENGOs), 259–261
• Environmental Protection Law, 261
• Environmental Protection Unit, 15, 74
• Ethyl Corporation, 69–70
• Exports
  • air quality and, 85, 93–94
  • food, 129–130, 133–134, 136, 149, 151, 154, 164
  • goods movement, 6, 9, 12–13, 16–22, 25, 29–36, 45–47, 85, 93–94, 113, 129–130, 133–136, 149, 151, 154, 164, 187–189, 195, 210, 234, 245, 255
  • Guangdong, 6
  • Special Economic Zones (SEZ), 13, 81, 113–114, 234, 257
  • transportation and, 187–189, 195

• Fair Winds Charter, 1–2, 26, 50–51, 57–58
• Fan Xiaqiu, 65
• Farms, 212
  • educational hobby, 160
  • farmers’ markets, 141, 154, 156, 160, 207
  • food and, 129, 131–137, 141–142, 146, 148–151, 154–163
  • goods movement, 45
  • sustainable, 137, 148–149, 158, 161, 163–164
  • urban development and, 16, 130
  • water, 118, 121, 213
• Fast food, 130, 139, 144–147, 153, 179, 255
• Federal Housing Authority, 215
• Feng Lun, 238
• Ferries, 14, 54, 169–172
• Ferries Ordinance, 170
• Fertilizers, 123, 132, 149, 161, 299n12
• Filipinos, 132
• Filters, 61, 88, 117
• Fire, 7–8, 12, 52
• Fish-Ball riots, 225
• Flamming, Douglas, 233
• Floods, 8, 98–99, 115, 124–125, 177–178, 232–234
• Food
  • air quality and, 133, 300n14
  • beef, 150
  • Beijing, 155
  • built environment and, 143
  • Cargill, 151
  • cheap, 136
  • chicken, 118, 121, 129–131, 135–136, 142, 150–151, 153, 159, 307n65
  • China, 18, 129–142, 146–155, 159–164
  • Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), 141
  • concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), 129
  • consumers, 136–142, 150, 152, 154–156, 159, 162–163
  • consumption of, 143–148
  • community-supported agriculture (CSA), 154–156, 161–163
  • dairy, 131, 133, 142, 159
  • dragon-head enterprises, 150
  • eggs, 135
  • ethnic, 130, 141, 144–145, 155
  • exports, 129–130, 133–134, 136, 149, 151, 154, 164
  • farms, 129, 131–137, 141–142, 146, 148–151, 154–163
  • fast food, 130, 139, 144–147, 153, 179, 255
  • fruit, 129, 131, 136, 139, 141, 145–146, 151, 157
  • Goldman Sachs and, 151
  • Good Food Procurement Policy program, 158
  • growing, 131–137
  • Guangdong, 132, 135, 149, 159
  • Guangzhou, 137
  • hazards, 129, 132, 154, 156, 161–163
  • health issues, 8, 129–130, 134, 140–141, 144–148, 154, 156, 158, 162
  • Hong Kong, 258, 312n86, 313n90
  • hypermarkets, 141, 151–152
  • imported, 134, 136, 255
  • KFC, 153
  • labels, 139–140, 143, 161–162
  • labor and, 129–133, 135, 140, 149, 158, 160, 162
  • land use and, 140, 148, 156–157
  • lead and, 132
  • local, 133–134, 137
  • Los Angeles, 8, 10, 129–130, 141, 157, 159, 228
  • manufacturing, 138, 147–148, 152–153, 162
  • McDonald’s, 145, 153, 255
  • nutrition, 146–147, 153–154, 158
  • obesity and, 144, 146, 153, 305n52, 310n75
  • organic, 24, 116, 118, 136–137, 140–142, 147, 154–156, 159–162, 207, 314n93
  • Partnerships for Sustainable Development, 258
  • Pearl River Delta, 135, 137
  • pesticides, 16, 118, 123, 132, 149
  • policy change, 252, 255–256, 258, 262
  • pollution and, 133, 149, 154
  • population issues, 132, 140–141, 144–147, 149, 151, 153–155
  • pork, 134, 150–151, 153, 308n66, 312n85
  • processed, 143, 145, 151–153, 159
  • production, 18, 131–139, 148–150, 154, 156, 159–162, 164
  • protest and, 137, 142
  • rail and, 132, 137
  • real estate and, 132–133, 136, 142
  • retailers, 133, 136–143, 151–152, 158, 161–162
  • safety, 16, 18, 20, 86, 136, 138, 142, 146–147, 151–152, 154, 159, 161–162, 242, 305n52, 311n75
  • schools and, 129–131, 134, 144–146, 156–158, 298n1
  • Shanghai, 162
  • supermarkets, 8, 133, 137–143, 151–152, 185, 301n29, 303n37, 304n42
  • supply chains, 130, 139–140, 150, 152, 154, 160
  • Tesco, 140–141, 151–152
  • trucks and, 132, 145
  • Tyson Foods, 129–131, 139, 150, 298n1
  • Urban & Environmental Policy Institute and, 156
  • urban development and, 134–135
  • vegetables, 129, 132–139, 141, 145–146, 148, 151, 153–154, 159, 161, 224
  • Walmart and, 139–141, 151–152, 159, 302nn30,32
  • WH Group and, 151
• Food justice, 155–160, 255
• Food security, 8, 17, 20, 131, 140, 144, 146–148, 158
• Ford, John Anson, 67
• Foshan, 17, 22
• Fountains, 111, 125–126
• Franchise system, 134, 153, 171–172
• Free markets, 5
• Friedmann, John, 5
• Friends of the Earth (HK), 247, 340n19
• Friends of the Los Angeles River, 256
• Fruit, 129, 131, 136, 139, 141, 145–146, 151, 157
• Fu Yingchun, 64
• Fujian Province, 13, 30, 260

• Garcetti, Eric, 11, 201–202, 325n84
• Garments, 12, 30
• Gas masks, 61–63, 88
• Gasoline, 68–70, 178
• Gated communities, 217–218, 221–223, 226, 236–237, 242, 332nn61,62
• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), 46
• General Motors (GM), 69
• Gentrification, 186, 216, 262
• Global cities, 1, 3–7, 9, 18–21, 23–24, 184, 197, 203, 236–237, 262–263
• Globalization, 20–21, 24, 250
• Gold, Jonathan, 145
• Goldman Sachs, 150, 154
• Good Food Procurement Policy program, 131, 158
• Goods movement. See also specific products by name
  • activists and, 267
  • Alameda Corridor, 10, 35, 42
  • barges, 26–27, 37
  • cargo handling, 29–33, 37–38, 42, 47, 55, 230
  • cheap goods, 17, 24, 27, 35–36
  • China, 25–49, 52–59
  • Civic Exchange and, 2–4, 38–40, 49–50, 76, 82, 92, 97, 248, 259
  • consumers and, 25, 27, 35–36
  • continued expansion of, 27–28
  • diesel vehicles, 26–27, 40–42, 51, 54–56, 66, 77, 79, 83–84, 90–91
  • docks, 33, 40, 42, 54–55, 57, 170, 229
  • doll’s journey scenario, 25–28
  • embargoes, 12, 29
  • exports, 6, 9, 12–13, 16–22, 25, 29–36, 45–47, 85, 93–94, 113, 129–130, 133–136, 149, 151, 154, 164, 187–189, 195, 210, 234, 245, 255
  • Fair Winds Charter, 1–2, 26, 50–51, 57–58
  • farms and, 45
  • GATT and, 46
  • Guangdong, 25, 31, 37, 48, 50, 58
  • Guangzhou, 32, 46
  • health issues, 27–28, 37–45, 49, 51–53, 55, 57, 59
  • Hong Kong, 1–2, 25–40, 45–53, 57–59, 267n3
  • labor and, 26–27, 29, 31, 33, 47, 52, 56, 95
  • land use and, 35, 40, 44, 55
  • legal issues, 27, 59
  • Long Beach, 6, 10, 17, 19, 26–27, 32–34, 37, 50, 52, 55–56, 79, 99, 136, 179, 189, 232, 246, 251
  • Los Angeles, 3, 25–28, 32–37, 40–45, 48–59
  • Maersk, 26, 49–50, 57
  • manufacturing and, 25–27, 30, 46
  • “Moving Forward Together” conference, 1–2
  • Nicaragua Canal, 36–37
  • Panama Canal, 34–37
  • Pearl River Delta, 39, 47–49
  • pollution and, 27–28, 38–45, 48–49, 51, 57–59
  • production and, 31, 34, 36, 46–48
  • protest and, 47
  • rail, 25–27, 32–38, 42–43
  • real estate and, 26
  • retailers and, 19, 25–27, 35, 52, 56
  • Shanghai, 26, 37, 46–47, 49
  • Shenzhen, 19, 21, 25–26, 30, 32, 37, 40, 48, 58
  • Special Economic Zones (SEZs), 13, 81, 113–114, 234, 257
  • supply chains, 5–6, 23, 26–27, 33, 130, 139–140, 150, 152, 154, 160
  • TEU volumes, 27, 30–31, 33
  • trucks, 8, 10, 25–27, 31, 34–35, 37–44, 51–56, 254
  • unloading, 17, 26, 33, 40, 54, 182
  • Walmart, 26, 35, 44, 56, 139–141, 151–152, 159
  • warehouses, 10, 25, 27, 35, 40, 44–45, 52–53, 79, 229
  • Wilmington conference, 1
• Gorz, André, 263
• Gottlieb, Robert, 3
• Government NGOs (GONGOs), 260
• Grapes, 131
• Great Depression, 21, 133, 177, 222
• Great Leap Forward, 112–113
• Great Recession, 47, 55–56, 191, 193
• Green Beagle, 65
• Green belts, 42, 211–212, 329n28
• Greenhouse gases, 94, 183
• Greenpeace East Asia, 92, 258
• Griffith, Evan, 123–124
• Grist magazine, 246
• Groundwater, 9, 99, 101, 106, 111, 115–121, 132, 293n42
• Guangdong
  • air quality, 72, 80–82, 91, 93
  • Dongjiang River, 52, 97–98, 112–114, 118–119, 124
  • exports, 6
  • food, 132, 135, 149, 159
  • geography of, 22
  • goods movement, 25, 31, 37, 48, 50, 58
  • Hong Kong and, 13–14, 17, 22, 31, 37, 48–50, 58, 72, 80–82, 113–114, 118–121, 124, 126, 135, 159, 257, 267n3
  • immigrant labor, 132, 149
  • Los Angeles and, 132
  • nuclear power, 258
  • Pearl River Basin, 15, 17
  • PX plants, 260
  • SARS and, 18, 135
  • urban development, 11, 13–15, 17, 234
  • water, 15, 97, 112–114, 118–120, 124, 126
• Guangzhou
  • annual growth rate, 235
  • Asian Games, 236
  • bicycles, 189
  • Cantonese culture of, 235
  • container port ranking of, 17t, 266n17
  • food, 137
  • gated communities, 236
  • geography of, 22
  • global city status, 4, 18
  • goods movement, 32, 46
  • Hong Kong high-speed rail and, 258
  • immigrants, 12, 235
  • modernity, 234–236
  • open spaces, 21, 234–236
  • policy change, 258
  • rail, 137, 258
  • as Tier 1 city, 22
  • transportation, 172–173, 188–194
  • urban dynamics of, 21, 234
  • water, 97, 123, 126
• Guangzhou Motor Group Company, 188
• Guangzhou Water Supply Company, 126
• Guano, 132, 299n12
• Gulfport, 36

• H7N9 virus, 135–136
• Haagen-Smit, Arie, 67
• Hahn, Kenneth, 67
• “Hairy nose” campaign, 61
• Hall, Peter, 5
• Hamilton, Alice, 278n12
• Hangzhou Public Bicycle, 322n60
• Hanson, A. E., 222
• Happy Valley Race Course, 209
• Harbin, 122
• Harvey, David, 9, 265n3
• Hawthorne, Christopher, 181, 242
• Hazards
  • air quality, 69–70
  • environmental, 5, 8–9, 23, 70, 129, 132, 154, 156, 161–163, 246, 254, 260
  • food, 129, 132, 154, 156, 161–163
  • occupational, 69
  • policy change, 254, 260
• Haze, 7, 66, 73, 80, 86, 89, 94
• Heal the Bay, 256
• Health issues
  • air quality, 16, 61, 63, 65–66, 69–70, 74–84, 87–88, 91
  • avian influenza (H7N9), 135–136
  • cancer, 41–42, 77, 83, 122
  • carcinogens, 41, 83, 116
  • China, 16–17, 28, 49, 53, 55, 59, 63, 87–88, 122, 126, 128, 154–156, 162, 189, 235, 260
  • environmental issues and, 16 (see also Environmental issues)
  • food, 8, 129–130, 134, 140–141, 144–148, 154, 156, 158, 162
  • goods movement and, 27–28, 37–45, 49, 51–53, 55, 57, 59
  • Hong Kong, 14, 16, 38–40, 53, 59, 61, 74–76, 81–84, 91, 111–112, 118, 146–148, 175, 183, 209, 229
  • lead, 68–69, 132, 267n3
  • Los Angeles, 40–43, 45, 51–53, 57, 59, 65–66, 69–70, 77, 79–80, 116, 125, 129–131, 134, 140–141, 144–146, 158, 180, 187, 201, 213, 255
  • low-birth-weight babies, 77
  • miscarriages, 77
  • obesity, 144, 146, 153, 305n52, 310n75
  • open spaces and, 209, 213, 229, 235
  • pedestrians, 14
  • policy change, 255, 260
  • pollution, 27 (see also Pollution)
  • premature births, 77
  • premature deaths, 40–41, 49, 76–77, 88, 91
  • SARS, 18, 135, 248, 252, 339n10
  • THMs and, 116–117
  • traffic deaths, 183–184, 186, 325n84
  • transportation and, 175, 180, 183, 187, 189, 201
  • water, 102, 111–112, 116, 118, 122, 125–128
  • World Health Organization (WHO), 41, 74–75, 83, 85–86, 88, 118
• “Healthy Corner Store Campaign
• Hedley, Anthony, 75–76, 83
• Hedley Environmental Index (HEI), 76
• Henderson, Elizabeth, 155
• Heyuan, 97–98, 287n4
• Hickel, Walter, 288n14
• Hidden Hills, 222–223
• HKND (Hong Kong Nicaragua Canal Development) Corporation, 36, 271n33
• Ho, Peter, 341n23
• Ho Pui Yin, 111
• Homelessness, 11–12, 147, 221, 229, 262
• Honda, 188
• Hong Kong
  • Agriculture, Fisheries, and Conservation Department, 136
  • air quality, 39, 50, 58, 61, 65–66, 72–76, 80–87, 90–94, 183, 281n37, 282n40
  • as Asia’s world city, 5–6, 265n4
  • automobiles, 174–175, 181, 199
  • Basic Law, 18, 32, 84, 252
  • bicycles, 167, 169, 182, 224, 231
  • black rainstorms, 98
  • as British colony, 11–12, 20, 29–30, 209
  • Buildings Ordinance, 210, 218–219
  • built environment, 143, 248
  • buses, 171–172, 174–175, 182–183, 196, 199–200, 230, 240
  • Causeway Bay, 207
  • Central Government Complex, 206
  • Centre for Food Safety, 146
  • China Motor Bus (CMB) Company, 171
  • city lights reputation of, 266n15
  • Civic Exchange and, 2–4, 38–40, 49–50, 76, 82, 92, 97, 248, 259
  • Clean Air Ordinance, 74
  • Clean Air Plan, 58, 90–93, 248, 251
  • compared to Los Angeles, 19–20
  • Container Committee, 30
  • container port ranking of, 17t, 26, 266n17, 274n57
  • Cross Harbour Tunnel, 170
  • as dense vertical city, 11
  • Design and Management Guidelines, 220
  • diplomatic occupation of, 268n10
  • economic influence of, 6, 19
  • embargoes and, 12, 29
  • emissions, 39–40, 80–84, 93–94, 183, 196
  • Environmental Protection Department, 15, 39, 49–50, 74, 118, 240
  • Fair Winds Charter and, 1–2, 26, 50–51, 57–58
  • Ferries Ordinance, 170
  • food, 225, 258, 312n86, 313n90
  • Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD), 225
  • gating, 217–218
  • geography of, 22–23, 31
  • goods movement, 1–2, 25–40, 45–53, 57–59, 267n3
  • Guangdong and, 13–14, 17, 22, 31, 37, 48–50, 58, 72, 80–82, 113–114, 118–121, 124, 126, 135, 159, 257, 267n3
  • Guangzhou high-speed rail, 258
  • health issues, 14, 16, 38–40, 53, 59, 61, 74–76, 81–84, 91, 111–112, 118, 146–148, 175, 183, 209, 229
  • higher education, 3
  • hilly topography, 209
  • housing, 12–14, 91, 142, 146, 172, 209–212, 217–218, 229–231, 240, 256–257
  • immigrants, 154, 262, 313n90
  • Kowloon Motor Bus (KMB), 171–172
  • Kwai Chung, 30–31, 33, 38–39, 80–81, 229
  • Kwun Tong, 80, 172, 231
  • land use, 110, 175, 209–210, 216, 238
  • Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD), 231
  • Lok Ma Chau, 31
  • Man Kam To, 31
  • manufacturing, 6, 11–14, 16, 19, 25–27, 30, 80–81, 93, 113, 147–148, 210, 267n3
  • Mass Transit Railway (MTR), 172, 174–175, 196, 206
  • Mass Transit Railway Corporation (MTRC), 172–173, 193–194
  • modernization, 30–31, 37, 225–226
  • Mong Kok, 207
  • New Territories, 14, 118, 134–135, 137, 163, 170–171, 173, 182, 211, 258, 313n90
  • New Towns, 74, 182, 197–198, 211, 218, 226, 231, 240
  • noise, 38, 74, 182–184, 219, 225
  • Occupy Central events, 16, 142, 196, 200, 205–208, 231, 240, 253, 262–263
  • open spaces, 3, 14, 16, 205–212, 216–220, 224–239, 241, 243, 257
  • Pearl River Delta and, 4, 15, 17–18, 22–23, 39–40, 47–49, 72–73, 80, 82–83, 87–88, 92, 112, 114, 119, 135, 137, 194, 267n20, 286n1
  • pedestrians, 14, 83, 168–169, 182–183, 200, 206–207, 219, 225–226, 231–232
  • Plover Cove, 112
  • police, 196, 205–206, 225, 231
  • policy change, 245–248, 251–252, 256–259, 262–263, 338n3, 339n10, 340nn18–19
  • pollution, 15–16, 39, 49–50, 72–76, 80–84, 92–94, 118–119, 174, 183, 196, 207, 239–240, 248, 257–258
  • population issues, 12–14, 83, 93, 111, 114, 146–147, 154, 170, 172, 174, 182–183, 199, 208–211, 216–217, 305n52
  • Port and Maritime Board, 38
  • Port Rail Line (PRL), 38
  • Pottinger and, 268n10
  • poultry-related diseases and, 135–136
  • Protection of the Harbour Ordinance, 335n88
  • public space, 169, 206–207, 216, 219, 224, 226, 239
  • rail, 14, 25, 32, 37–38, 137, 168–175, 181–184, 199–200, 258
  • real estate, 16, 26, 76, 136, 142, 172–173, 262–263
  • reasons for analyzing, 3–4
  • right to the city, 262–263
  • riots, 205, 225, 256
  • SARS and, 18, 135, 248, 252
  • Sha Tau Kok, 31
  • Stonecutters Island, 31
  • street performance culture, 207
  • tourism, 114, 154, 165, 169–171, 208, 225, 230
  • Town Planning Ordinance (TPO), 210
  • transportation, 13–15, 165–175, 181–186, 193–194, 196, 199–203
  • Transport Department, 168
  • trucks, 37–39, 271n36
  • Tsim Sha Tsui, 165–166, 168, 170
  • Tsing Yi, 31
  • typhoons, 98, 112
  • Tyson and, 129–131, 139, 150
  • urban development, 4–6, 11–16, 134–135, 137, 173
  • Victoria Harbor, 170, 229–230
  • water issues, 97–98, 110–114, 118–121, 124–130, 134–137, 141–143, 146–148, 153–155, 159–164, 229–232, 291n30, 296n62
• Hong Kong and Yaumati Ferry (HYF), 170
• Hong Kong Botanical Gardens, 209
• Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 172
• Hong Kong Liner Shipping Association (HKLSA), 49–50
• Hong Kong Organic Resource Center, 160
• Hong Kong Planning Standards and Guidelines, 211, 217–218, 220, 328n15
• Hong Kong Police Force, 225
• Hong Kong Shipowners Association
• Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), 15, 22, 91, 127
  • Transport and Housing Bureau, 91, 231, 240
• Hong Kong Tramways Limited, 170
• Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 82
• Hoover Dam, 101
• Horizontal expansion, 7–11, 104, 160, 217, 253
• Hou, Jeffrey, 205
• Household responsibility system, 148
• Housing
  • affordable, 12, 212, 214, 229, 235
  • apartments, 52, 135, 194, 213–214, 236
  • China, 22, 188, 235
  • Cortese and, 223
  • Federal Housing Authority, 215
  • gated communities, 217–218, 221–223, 226, 236–237, 242
  • Hong Kong, 12–14, 91, 142, 146, 172, 209–212, 217–218, 229–231, 240, 256–257
  • lead paint and, 69
  • Los Angeles, 69, 185–186, 202, 214–215, 221–223
  • mansions, 221–222
  • population issues and, 12–14, 22, 69, 91, 142, 146, 172, 185–188, 202, 209–218, 221–223, 229–231, 235, 240, 256
  • security and, 218–219, 221, 223
  • Supreme Court decision on, 215
  • Transport and Housing Bureau and, 91, 231, 240
  • Webb and, 223
• Hricko, Andrea, 267n1
• Hsing, You-tien, 238
• Hu Jintao, 124
• Huangpu, 32
• Huangpu River, 122
• Huizhou, 97–98
• Huntington, Henry E., 176, 221, 318n22
• Hutchison Port Holdings Limited (HPHL), 30, 47
• Hutchison Whampoa, 30, 142
• Hypermarkets, 141, 151–152

• Immigrants
  • agriculture and, 131–133
  • Alien Land Acts and, 133
  • China, 6, 149, 154, 194–195, 197–198, 234–235, 237, 239, 262, 267n20
  • coolies, 29, 132
  • driver’s licenses and, 320n39
  • Guangzhou, 12, 235
  • Hong Kong, 154, 262, 313n90
  • Los Angeles, 10–12, 19, 42, 52, 56, 132–133, 141, 145, 228, 242, 245, 262
  • Red Squad and, 133
  • refugees, 160, 210
  • Shanghai, 12
  • stereotypes, 111
• Immigration Rights rally, 56
• Imperial Valley, 106
• Imports
  • bicycles, 188
  • food, 134, 136, 255
  • toys, 26
  • water, 7, 104, 124
• Import substitution, 13
• Inland Empire, 35, 45, 68, 72
• Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPEA), 261
• Integrated Resources Plan (IRP), 106, 289n21
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 94
• Intermodal Container Transfer Facility (ICTF), 42
• International Agency for Cancer Research, 41
• Irrigation, 107, 109

• Jackson, Kenneth, 319n30
• Jackson, Lisa, 287n9
• Jacksonville, 36
• Jao, Y. C., 12
• Japanese, 132–133, 148
• Jaywalkers, 185, 227
• Jiang Zemin, 124
• Jinsha River, 248–251
• Jiong Wu, 235
• Joint Conference for the Shelving of the Daya Bay Nuclear Plant, 257

• Kadoorie, Horace, 160
• Kadoorie, Lawrence, 160
• Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG), 160–161, 163, 313n90
• Kayak expeditions, 97–98, 100, 287n9
• KFC, 153
• Korean War, 12, 29
• Koreatown, 145
• Kowloon Motor Bus (KMB), 171–172, 317n17
• Kowloon Peninsula, 12, 170, 172, 229
• Kwai Chung, 30, 80–81, 229
• Kwai Chung Container Terminals, 30–31, 38–39
• Kwun Tong, 80, 172, 231

• Labor
  • air quality and, 98
  • All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), 308n70
  • cheap, 6, 95
  • coolies, 29, 132
  • food and, 129–133, 135, 140, 149, 158, 160, 162
  • goods movement and, 26–27, 29, 31, 33, 47, 52, 56, 95
  • manufacturing and, 6, 12, 26 (see also Manufacturing)
  • migrant, 6, 10, 133, 149, 235 (see also Immigrants)
  • open spaces and, 212, 235
  • policy change, 246, 253–254, 256
  • protest costs, 47
  • rural, 6
  • spatial division of, 5–6
  • Tyson’s abuses of, 129
• Land use
  • agriculture and, 174, 176, 214, 234 (see also Agriculture)
  • air quality and, 70, 76, 78
  • Alien Land Acts, 133
  • auctions and, 209
  • automobiles and, 184–185
  • built environment and, 24 (see also Built environment)
  • China, 148, 192, 238
  • food and, 140, 148, 156–157
  • freeways and (see Land use: highways and)
  • goods movement and, 35, 40, 44, 55
  • highways and, 8, 13, 34–35, 40, 41, 43, 69, 77–78, 138, 175, 178–181, 183–187, 192, 195–197, 212, 214, 231, 240, 245, 263
  • Hong Kong, 110, 175, 209–210, 216, 238
  • household responsibility system and, 148
  • housing and, 221–222 (see also Housing)
  • industrial, 9
  • lawns and, 107, 109
  • Los Angeles, 35, 40, 44, 70, 78, 104, 109–110, 140, 184–185, 212–213, 216, 232, 239–242, 252–253
  • open spaces and, 8, 24, 209–210, 212–213, 216, 232, 238–242
  • ordinances, 107, 210, 213–214, 217–219
  • parking and, 8, 138–139, 177, 179, 181–182, 184–185, 192, 214, 232–233, 237
  • Planning Standards, 211, 217–218, 220
  • policy change, 252–253, 256
  • public space and, 3 (see also Public space)
  • real estate and, 9, 76 (see also Real estate)
  • regional geographies and, 21–23
  • skyscrapers and, 72, 235
  • sprawl and, 7, 9, 44, 160, 210, 214, 236, 242, 255–256
  • toxicity and, 9
  • transportation and, 70 (see also Transportation)
  • water and, 104, 109–110
  • zoning, 210, 212–217, 231, 239
• Latinos, 45, 52, 215–216, 242, 245
• Lawns, 107, 109
• Lead contamination, 68–70, 132, 267n3, 278n12
• Leaping Tiger Gorge, 250
• Lee, Tony, 49
• Lefebvre, Henri, 165
• Legal issues
  • Basic Law of Hong Kong, 18, 32, 84, 252
  • Center for Law in the Public Interest and, 70
  • goods movement and, 27, 59
  • housing and, 215
  • open spaces and, 215, 228, 232–233
  • policy change and, 250, 254
  • Port Community Mitigation Fund and, 54–55
  • transportation and, 185, 199
  • US Supreme Court, 215
• Legislative Council (LegCo), 247, 338n3
• Le Goix, Renaud, 223
• Leisure
  • communities for, 221, 223
  • recreation and, 169, 175, 195, 200–201, 209–211, 216–219, 221, 224, 226, 229–231
  • shopping and, 138, 141, 143, 152, 162, 165, 178–180, 194, 206–207, 218–219, 223, 225–226
• Leisure World, 223
• Lettuce, 131
• Leung Chun-ying, 15–16, 84, 248
• Levinson, Marc, 270n26
• Li Kai Kuen, 163
• Li Ka-shing, 30, 142
• Li Keqiang, 89, 121
• Li Peng, 124
• Light pollution, 42–43
• Lingnan University, 135
• Linton, Joe, 100
• Liquefied natural gas (LNG), 58
• Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), 83
• Little Bangladesh, 145
• Little Donkey Farm, 155, 162
• Little Ethiopia, 145
• Lobbying, 48, 201, 246, 254–255, 260
• Logan, Angelo, 57, 245–246, 251
• Loh, Christine, 16, 246–248, 251, 259, 282n41, 338nn3–4, 339n10
• London, 6, 209
• Long Beach
  • Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP) and, 55
  • environmental issues, 37, 52
  • goods movement, 6, 10, 17, 19, 26–27, 32–34, 37, 50, 52, 55–56, 79, 99, 136, 179, 189, 232, 246, 251
  • HKLSA and, 50
  • MATES studies and, 79
  • water and, 99
• Los Angeles
  • activists, 109
  • agriculture, 8, 131–134
  • air quality, 7, 58–59, 61, 62f, 65–72, 76–80, 85, 89, 92–94, 179–180, 187
  • Alameda Corridor, 10, 35, 42
  • ArroyoFest, 196–198, 200–201, 240
  • automobiles, 7, 9, 66–70, 77, 85, 138, 177–179, 184–187, 196–197, 202, 319n35
  • “Beat the Canal
  • bicycles, 42, 175, 177, 184–187, 196, 200–203, 206, 227, 240–241, 255, 262
  • Black Monday, 66
  • built environment, 178, 181, 184, 212–214, 216, 242, 256
  • Bunker Hill, 215
  • buses, 178–181, 186
  • California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and, 57, 215
  • Chavez Ravine, 215
  • CicLAvia, 200–201, 206–207, 240, 242, 255
  • Commerce (suburb), 245
  • Committee of 25, 9
  • Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), 141
  • compared to Hong Kong, 19–20
  • connection to China, 16–19, 48–49, 85, 89, 119–120
  • container port ranking of, 17t
  • density of, 186–187
  • Department of Water and Power, 105, 125
  • diesel vehicles, 40–42
  • early growth, 212–213
  • emissions, 40–43, 68–69, 78, 92–93
  • expansion, 34–35
  • fire, 7–8
  • food, 8, 10, 129–147, 152–160, 164, 228
  • as freeway capital of country, 179
  • Garcetti and, 11, 201–202
  • as gateway city for the Pacific Rim, 34
  • geography of, 21–23
  • global profile of, 9–11
  • goods movement, 3, 17, 25–28, 32–37, 40–45, 48–59
  • Guangdong immigrants, 132
  • Harbor Department, 34
  • health issues, 40–43, 45, 51–53, 57, 59, 65–66, 69–70, 77, 79–80, 116, 125, 129–131, 134, 140–141, 144–146, 158, 180, 187, 201, 213, 255
  • housing, 69, 185–186, 202, 214–215, 221–223
  • I-110 closure, 196–197
  • immigrants, 10–12, 19, 42, 52, 56, 132–133, 141, 145, 228, 242, 245, 262
  • land use, 35, 40, 44, 78, 104, 109–110, 140, 184–185, 212–213, 216, 239–242, 252–253
  • Latinos, 45, 52, 215–216, 242, 245
  • light pollution, 42–43
  • manufacturing, 8–9, 16, 19, 27, 68, 90, 213, 253
  • Metropolitan Transportation Authority, 180
  • Mobility 2035 plan, 202, 227, 242, 255, 326n86
  • modernization, 10
  • “Moving Forward Together” conference, 1–2
  • noise, 40, 42–43, 180
  • Occidental College, 2–3, 36
  • Occupy LA, 205–207
  • oil and, 9, 34, 66, 70, 72, 77, 115, 213–214, 253–254
  • open spaces, 4–6, 42, 177, 205–209, 212–217, 221–229, 232–234, 236, 239–243
  • Palmdale (suburb), 290n26
  • pedestrians, 42, 167, 184–186, 201–202, 226–229, 240–242, 255, 262
  • Police Department (LAPD), 133, 167, 186
  • policy change, 245–246, 251–256, 262–263
  • pollution, 11, 61, 66–72, 76–80, 92–93, 115–116, 133, 179–180, 200, 212, 215–216, 253–256
  • population issues, 9–11, 21, 140–141, 144–145, 214–215, 223, 253
  • public space, 70, 205, 208, 221, 223–224, 228–229, 232, 240, 242
  • rail, 7, 10, 25, 33–35, 42–44, 132, 175–181, 184, 186–187, 202–203, 212
  • real estate, 9, 18, 101, 132–133, 176, 178, 212–215, 221–223, 239–240, 242, 253
  • reasons for analyzing, 3–4
  • Red Squad, 133
  • right to the city, 262–263
  • size of Port of, 32–33
  • Third Los Angeles, 181, 187, 242
  • tourism, 61, 208
  • transportation, 165, 167–168, 174–181, 184–189, 195–196, 199–203
  • trucks, 10, 34–35, 40–44, 51–52, 66, 77–79, 132, 145, 180–181, 184, 202, 251
  • Tyson and, 129–131, 139, 150
  • urban development, 7–11, 15–16, 101–104, 107, 115, 117, 176, 179, 214, 217, 253
  • US Army Corps of Engineers and, 98, 232
  • Villaraigosa and, 10–11, 201
  • water, 7, 97–120, 124, 126, 128–147, 152–160, 164, 232–234
  • Watts Riots, 215
  • Wilmington conference, 1
  • as world city, 5, 6
  • yard ordinance, 107
  • zoning, 212–216
• “Los Angeles against the Mountains” (McPhee), 8
• Los Angeles Aqueduct, 101, 108–109t, 253
• Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
• Los Angeles County Flood Control District, 232
• Los Angeles Dodgers, 215
• Los Angeles Food Policy Council (LAFPC), 10, 129–130, 141, 157, 159, 228
• Los Angeles River
  • agriculture and, 131–132
  • cementing of, 8, 98–99, 178
  • conservation, 105
  • flood control, 115, 177–178, 232, 255–256
  • Friends of the Los Angeles River, 256
  • kayak expeditions, 97–98, 100, 287n9
  • pollution of, 115
  • as public space, 232–233
  • restoration of, 99–100
  • sewage and, 99
  • soft bottom areas of, 99
  • Spanish colonists and, 212
  • trail improvements along, 42
  • water supply issues, 101–102
• Los Angeles School, 5
• Los Angeles Times, 57, 66, 98, 141, 181, 186, 213, 246, 252
• Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), 129–131, 298n1
• Lung issues, 41, 45, 70–71, 77–79, 83
• Luxury, 110, 174, 222, 237

• Ma Jun, 261
• MacAdams, Lewis, 232
• Macau, 13, 22
• Maersk, 26, 49–50, 57
• Malibu Beach, 232–233
• Malls, 152, 172, 179, 194, 206, 218–219, 223, 226
• Manhattan Beach, 233
• Manila, 34
• Mansions, 221–222
• Manufacturing
  • air quality and, 68–69, 77, 80–81, 90, 93–94
  • China, 6, 16, 18–19, 22, 26–27, 30, 46, 93, 120, 152–153, 187–192, 195
  • food and, 138, 147–148, 152–153
  • goods movement and, 25–27, 30–31, 46
  • Hong Kong, 6, 11–14, 16, 19, 25–27, 30, 80–81, 93, 113, 147–148, 210, 267n3
  • lead and, 68–69
  • Los Angeles, 8–9, 16, 19, 27, 68, 90, 213, 253
  • open spaces and, 210, 213
  • policy change, 253, 260
  • transportation and, 187–192, 195
  • water and, 112–113, 125
• Maoism, 13, 45–46, 148, 256, 260
• Maoming, 260
• Marcuse, Peter, 320n36
• Marquez, Jesse, 51
• Mass Transit Railway (MTR), 172, 174–175, 196, 206
• Mass Transit Railway Corporation (MTRC), 172–173, 193–194
• Matson, Clarence, 34
• Mattel, 26
• Matuszak, Sascha, 311n78
• McArthur Park, 228
• McClier Report, 272n38
• McDonald’s, 145, 153, 255
• McPhee, John, 8
• Melons, 131
• Merkel, Angela, 90
• Metro Harbour View, 219
• Metropolitan Water District (MWD) of Southern California, 7, 21, 102, 105, 109, 125
• Mexicans, 111, 132–133
• Meyer, David, 29
• Miami, 36
• Middle class
  • American culture and, 9
  • China, 86, 92, 152, 154, 195, 236–237, 242
  • Hong Kong, 218
  • Los Angeles, 145, 180, 221–223
• Millard-Ball, Adam, 185
• Miscarriages, 77
• Mobile source air toxic (MSAT), 41
• Mobility 2035 plan, 202, 227, 242, 255, 326n86
• Modernization
  • China, 16–18, 121, 123, 150, 153, 155, 235–236, 242–243
  • Hong Kong, 30–31, 37, 225–226
  • Los Angeles, 10
  • urban development and, 10, 16–18, 30–31, 37, 121, 123, 150, 153, 155, 225, 235–236, 242–243
• Mong Kok, 196, 207, 225–226
• Mono Lake, 105–106
• Morris, Jan, 72
• Motorcycles, 167
• Moving Forward Network, 79, 282n38
• “Moving Forward Together” conference, 1–2
• Multiple Air Toxics Exposure Study (MATES), 78–79

• Nansha, 32
• Nathan Road, 165–166, 207
• National People’s Congress, 64, 121
• National Public Radio (NPR), 189
• Native Americans, 132
• Natural Resources Defense Council, 67, 254
• Neiburger, Morris, 94
• Neoliberalism, 5, 265n3
• Nestle, 125–126
• New Jersey, 36
• New Territories, 14, 118, 134–135, 137, 163, 170–171, 173, 182, 211, 258
• New Towns, 74, 182, 197–198, 211, 218, 226, 231, 240
• New Urbanization, 238, 242–243
• New World First Bus Company, 171–172
• New York City, 6, 201, 205–206
• New York State, 36, 155
• New York Times, 202
• Ng, Simon, 3, 49
• Nicaragua Canal, 36–37
• Nichols, Mary, 70, 90, 279n15
• Nitrogen oxides (NO_x), 14, 39, 48, 54–55, 68, 69, 77, 79, 80, 82–84, 86, 90, 91, 183
• Noise
  • China, 236
  • Hong Kong, 38, 74, 182–184, 219, 225
  • Los Angeles, 40, 42–43, 180
  • stress and, 43, 183, 187
  • transportation and, 180–184, 187
• Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), 20, 87, 166, 239, 250, 258–261
• North American Water and Power Alliance, 104
• Northern California, 7, 102, 104–106, 115–116, 123, 138
• Norton, Peter, 185
• Nuclear power, 257–258, 340n18
• Nutrition, 146–147, 153–154, 158
• NWS Holdings Limited, 171

• Oaxacalifornia, 145
• Obama, Barack, 72, 84
• Obama, Michelle, 130
• Obesity, 144, 146, 153, 305n52, 310n75
• Occidental College, 2–3, 36
• Occupy Central
  • air quality and, 207
  • Hong Kong and, 16, 142, 196, 200, 205–208, 231, 240, 253, 262–263
  • public space use and, 207
• Occupy LA, 205–206, 207
• Occupy Wall Street, 205
• O’Donnell, Mary Ann, 237
• Oil
  • Canada, 142
  • China, 53, 260
  • cooking, 154
  • goods movement and, 34, 40, 53
  • Hong Kong, 40
  • Los Angeles, 9, 34, 66, 70, 72, 77, 115, 213–214, 253–254
  • rail destruction conspiracies and
  • Santa Barbara Channel spill, 115
• Olmsted-Bartholomew report, 221
• Olympics, 65, 92, 189–190, 193
• One country, two systems, 15, 18, 22, 32, 252, 257–258, 292nn34–35
• Open spaces
  • agriculture and, 174, 176, 214, 234, 240
  • air quality and, 42, 55
  • Beijing, 206, 236
  • blue, 229
  • built environment and, 24, 212–214, 216, 242
  • buses and, 207, 230, 240
  • China, 55, 205, 208, 234, 236–239, 242–243
  • countable, 217, 328n15
  • decrease of, 7–8, 20, 24
  • Design and Management Guidelines, 220
  • district, 211
  • evolving, 208–216
  • fences and, 217–218, 222–223, 237
  • gating and, 217–218
  • green belts, 42, 211–212, 329n28
  • Guangzhou, 21, 234–236
  • health issues and, 209, 213, 229, 235
  • homelessness and, 11–12, 147, 221, 229, 262
  • Hong Kong, 3, 14, 16, 134–135, 137, 173, 205–212, 216–220, 224–239, 241, 243, 257
  • horizontal expansion and, 7–11, 104, 160, 217, 253
  • impact of, 20
  • labor and, 212, 235
  • land use and, 24, 209–210, 212–213, 216, 232, 238–242
  • legal issues, 215, 228, 232–233
  • local, 211, 217–218, 220
  • Los Angeles, 4–6, 42, 177, 205–209, 212–217, 221–229, 232–234, 236, 239–243
  • manufacturing and, 210, 213
  • noise and, 38, 40, 42–43, 74, 180–184, 187, 219, 225, 236
  • Olmsted-Bartholomew report, 221
  • ordinances, 210, 213–214, 217–219, 230, 335n88
  • parks, 8, 10, 19, 42–43, 55, 78, 137, 177–178, 180, 202, 205–206, 209, 211, 221–222, 230, 233, 239
  • pedestrians and, 206–207, 219, 225–232, 240–242
  • Planning Standards, 211, 217–218, 220
  • playgrounds, 77, 211, 239
  • policy change, 257
  • pollution and, 207, 215, 237, 239, 242
  • POPs and, 223–224
  • population issues and, 208–211, 214–217, 223, 234–236, 238, 267n20
  • privatizing, 216–224
  • protest and, 205–208, 225, 233, 240, 242–243
  • real estate and, 212–215, 221–223, 236, 238–240, 242
  • recreational, 169, 175, 195, 200–201, 209–211, 216–219, 221, 224, 226, 229–231
  • retailers and, 218–219
  • safety and, 206, 208, 221, 223–224, 228
  • Shanghai, 21
  • Shenzhen, 21, 234–238
  • sidewalks and, 145, 165, 167–168, 184, 207, 222, 224–229
  • sprawl and, 7, 9, 44, 160, 210, 214, 236, 242, 255–256
  • streets and, 224–229
  • stress and, 24, 43, 77, 86, 121–122, 183, 187, 229, 245, 263
  • sustainability and, 203, 238, 258
  • Town Planning Ordinance (TPO)
  • transportation and, 177
  • water and, 229–234
  • zoning and, 210, 212–217, 231, 239
• Optimists Club, 61, 62f
• Orange County, 102, 223
• Oranges, 131
• Ordinances
  • air quality, 74
  • ferries, 170
  • nuisance, 74
  • open spaces, 210, 213–214, 217–219, 230, 335n88
  • town planning, 210
  • yard, 107
• Our Malibu Beaches app, 256
• Owens River, 7, 101–102, 106, 108–109, 115
• Oxfam, 146–147, 305n54

• Pacific Electric Railway, 176
• Palos Verdes Estates, 213, 221–222
• Panama Canal, 34–37, 271n34
• Paraxylene (PX), 260–261
• Parking
  • China, 192, 237
  • fake No Parking signs, 232–233
  • Hong Kong, 182
  • Los Angeles, 8, 138–139, 177, 179, 181, 184–185, 214
• ParknShop, 142–143
• Parks
  • agricultural, 137
  • air quality and, 78, 180
  • occupy movements and, 205
  • open spaces and, 8, 10, 19, 42–43, 55, 78, 137, 177–178, 180, 202, 205–206, 209, 211, 221–222, 230, 233, 239
  • parklets, 202
  • pocket, 211
  • protected, 209
• Particulate matter
  • air quality and, 14, 45, 51, 54–55, 69–70, 79, 84–88, 91, 183, 256
  • criteria pollutants, 69
  • diesel emissions and, 54–55
  • goods movement and, 45, 51, 54–55
  • lung health and, 45, 70
  • MATES and, 79
• Partnerships for Sustainable Development, 258
• Pearl River Delta
  • air quality and, 72–73, 80, 82–83, 87–88, 92
  • food and, 135, 137
  • goods movement and, 39, 47–49
  • Guangdong and, 15, 17
  • Hong Kong and, 4, 15, 17–18, 22–23, 39–40, 47–49, 72–73, 80, 82–83, 87–88, 92, 112, 114, 119, 135, 137, 194, 267n20, 286n1
  • immigration to, 267n20
  • transportation and, 194
  • water and, 112, 114, 119
• Pedestrians
  • advocacy for, 181, 201–202
  • air quality and, 240
  • ArroyoFest, 196–198, 200–201, 240
  • China, 187
  • circulation space and, 219
  • Coyle incident, 165, 167–168, 186
  • crossings for, 165–167, 207
  • “Don’t Walk” lights, 165, 167, 186
  • fatalities, 183–184, 186
  • Hong Kong, 14, 83, 168–169, 182–183, 200, 206–207, 219, 225–226, 231–232
  • I-110 closure, 196–197
  • jaywalkers, 185, 227
  • Los Angeles, 42, 167, 184–186, 201–202, 226–229, 240–242, 255, 262
  • Mobility 2035 plan, 202, 227
  • open spaces and, 206–207, 219, 225–232, 240–242
  • parks and, 8, 19, 42–43, 55, 78, 137, 177–178, 180, 202, 205–206, 209, 221–222, 230, 233, 239
  • police and, 167, 186
  • sidewalks, 145, 165, 167–168, 184, 207, 222, 224–229
  • street culture, 207, 224–229, 230
  • traffic dangers, 165–170
• Peine, Emelie, 150
• Pepper, 29
• Pepsico, 146
• Peripheral Canal, 104–105, 123–124
• Pesticides, 16, 118, 123, 132, 149, 290n26
• Petrochemicals, 97, 260–261
• Petroleum, 9, 83, 279n15
• Phantom trips, 185
• Pharmaceuticals, 154
• Physiological effects, 43
• Pisano, Mark, 270n29
• Plastics, 30, 140, 260
• Playgrounds, 77, 211, 239
• Plover Cove, 112
• PM_2.5, 40, 71, 85–88, 201, 274n53, 283n55, 284n59. See also Particulate matter
• PM₁₀, 39, 50, 74, 82–84, 86, 91. See also Particulate matter
• Poisons, 132, 143
• Police
  • China, 52–53, 260
  • Hong Kong, 196, 205–206, 225, 231
  • Los Angeles, 133, 167, 186
  • pedestrians and, 167, 186
  • Red Squad and, 133
• Policy change
  • agriculture, 255, 258
  • air quality, 248, 251–258, 261–263
  • Beijing, 249
  • from below, 252–261
  • bicycles, 262
  • built environment, 248, 256
  • China, 245–253, 256–263
  • Civic Exchange and, 2–3, 38–39, 49–50, 76, 82, 92, 97, 247–248
  • Coalition for a Safe Environment and, 254
  • Cultural Revolution and, 13, 113
  • emissions, 245, 261
  • environmental issues, 51–52, 72, 78–79, 245–263
  • food, 252, 255–256, 258, 262
  • Garcetti and, 11, 201–202
  • globalization and, 250
  • Guangzhou, 258
  • hazards, 254, 260
  • health issues, 255, 260
  • Hong Kong, 245–248, 251–252, 256–259, 262–263, 338n3, 339n10, 340nn18–19
  • labor and, 246, 253–254, 256
  • land use, 252–253, 256
  • legal issues, 250, 254
  • lobbying and, 48, 201, 246, 254–255, 260
  • Logan and, 57, 245–246, 251
  • Loh and, 16, 246–248, 251, 259, 282n41, 338nn3–4, 339n10
  • Los Angeles, 245–246, 251–256, 262–263
  • making it happen, 245–252
  • manufacturing and, 253, 260
  • New Urbanization policy, 238, 242–243
  • NGOs and, 250, 258–261
  • open spaces, 257
  • pollution, 248, 253–258, 261, 263
  • population issues, 253
  • production, 245, 260, 262
  • protest and, 251–263
  • real estate, 253, 262–263
  • right to the city, 262–263
  • safety, 254, 257, 262
  • Shanghai, 260
  • Shenzhen, 248, 257
  • sustainability, 258
  • transportation, 248, 252, 256, 258
  • urban development, 253
  • Villaraigosa and, 10–11, 201
  • water, 250–256, 258, 261–262
  • Xiao Liangzhong and, 248–251
• Pollution
  • air, 10 (see also Air quality)
  • China, 20, 63, 65–66, 85–93, 98, 119–123, 149, 154, 187, 192, 237, 242, 257–258, 261, 263
  • emissions, 1, 15, 18, 39–43, 47–50, 55–59, 66–69, 72–73, 78–86, 90–94, 183, 196, 245
  • Fair Winds Charter, 1–2, 26, 50–51, 57–58
  • food and, 133, 149, 154
  • goods movement and, 27–28, 38–45, 48–49, 51, 57–59
  • haze, 7, 66, 73, 80, 86, 89, 94
  • Hong Kong, 15–16, 39, 49–50, 72–76, 80–84, 92–94, 118–119, 174, 183, 196, 207, 239–240, 248, 257–258 (see also Hong Kong: Environmental Protection Department)
  • light, 42, 43
  • Los Angeles, 11, 61, 66–72, 76–80, 92–93, 115–116, 133, 179–180, 200, 212, 215–216, 253–256
  • nitrogen oxides (NO_x), 14, 39, 48, 54–55, 68, 77, 79, 83, 90, 183
  • noise, 38, 40, 42–43, 74, 180–184, 187, 219, 225, 236
  • open spaces and, 207, 215, 237, 239, 242
  • particulate matter, 14, 45, 51, 54–55, 69–70, 79, 84–86, 91, 183, 256
  • PM_2.5, 40, 71, 85–88, 201, 274n53, 283n55, 284n59
  • PM₁₀, 39, 50, 74, 82–84, 86, 91
  • policy change, 248, 253–258, 261, 263
  • sulfur content of fuel, 1, 49–50, 55, 58, 73, 80, 83, 91
  • sulfur dioxide (SO₂), 39, 40, 49–50, 69, 74, 80–83, 86, 91
  • sulfur oxides (SO_x), 48, 55
  • transportation and, 27, 174, 179–180, 183, 187, 192, 196, 200
  • visibility, 61, 66–67, 72–73
  • war on, 121
  • water, 9 (see also Water)
  • White Paper on, 27
• Population issues
  • air quality and, 78, 83, 88, 93–94
  • booms in, 12–13, 214
  • California, 78
  • China, 16, 18–19, 22–23, 88, 93–94, 113, 119–121, 123, 126, 132, 149, 151, 153, 188, 191, 194, 234–236, 238, 267n20, 286n1, 287n2
  • food and, 132, 140–141, 144–147, 149, 151, 153–155
  • homeless and, 11–12, 147, 221, 229, 262
  • Hong Kong, 12, 14, 83, 93, 111, 114, 146–147, 154, 170, 172, 174, 182–183, 199, 208–211, 216–217, 305n52
  • housing and, 12–14, 22, 69, 91, 142, 146, 172, 185–188, 202, 209–218, 221–223, 229–231, 235, 240, 256
  • Los Angeles, 9–11, 21, 140–141, 144–145, 214–215, 223, 253
  • migrants and, 149 (see also Immigrants)
  • open spaces and, 208–211, 214–217, 223, 234–236, 238, 267n20
  • policy change, 253
  • squatter areas, 12, 210–211
  • transportation and, 167, 170, 172–174, 182–183, 188, 191, 194, 199
  • water and, 111, 113–114, 119–121, 123, 126
• Pork, 134, 150–151, 153, 308n66, 312n85
• Port Rail Line (PRL), 38, 272n37
• Pottinger, Henry, 268n10
• Poulson, Norris, 214
• Poultry, 118, 121, 129, 131, 135–136, 142, 150–151, 153, 159
• Poverty, 17, 78, 147, 229
• Premature births, 77
• Premature deaths, 40–41, 49, 76–77, 88, 91
• Price, Jenny, 232–233
• Privately owned public spaces (POPs), 223–224
• Production
  • air quality and, 69, 80, 82, 85, 88–89, 93–95
  • changes in, 16
  • division of labor, 6
  • focus on export, 6, 17, 46–47, 85, 154, 164, 234, 245
  • food, 18, 131–139, 148–150, 154, 156, 159–162, 164
  • global systems of, 5
  • goods movement, 31, 34, 36, 46–48
  • industrial, 31, 58, 80, 135, 149
  • patterns of, 4
  • policy change, 245, 260, 262
  • transportation and, 188–189
  • water and, 112, 116, 121–123
• Protection of the Harbour Ordinance, 230, 335n88
• Protest
  • air quality and, 61, 68, 88
  • China, 205
  • communitarian ideals and, 208
  • extremism and, 341n23
  • food and, 137, 142
  • goods movement and, 47
  • labor costs and, 47
  • Occupy Central, 16, 142, 196, 200, 205–208, 231, 240, 253, 262–263
  • Occupy LA, 205–207
  • Occupy Wall Street, 205
  • open spaces and, 205–208, 225, 233, 240, 242–243
  • policy change and, 251–263
  • riots and, 170, 205, 215, 225, 256
  • street performance culture and, 207
  • strolling, 341n33
  • Tiananmen Square, 18, 205, 253, 258–259
  • transportation and, 196
  • trucks and, 251, 254
  • water and, 122
• Psychological issues, 24, 43, 77, 86, 121–122, 183, 187, 229, 245, 263
• Public space, 3
  • China, 234
  • greater attention to, 11
  • Hong Kong, 169, 206–207, 216, 219, 224, 226, 239
  • Los Angeles, 205, 208, 221, 223–224, 228–229, 232, 240, 242
  • transportation and, 169
• Putin, Vladimir, 84

• Qian Liu, 237
• Qianhai Mall, 172
• Qiu Baoxing, 189
• Quality of life, 43, 78, 175, 183–184, 208

• Rail
  • Alameda Corridor, 10, 35, 42
  • China, 17, 25, 32, 187, 192–196
  • decline of, 178–179
  • electric, 176–180, 221
  • food and, 132, 137
  • goods movement and, 25–27, 32–38, 42–43
  • high speed, 18, 137, 173–174, 187, 192–195, 258, 267n18
  • Hong Kong, 14, 25, 32, 37–38, 137, 168–175, 181–184, 199–200, 258
  • Huntington and, 221
  • impact of, 24
  • interurbans, 176
  • Los Angeles, 7, 10, 25, 33–35, 42–44, 132, 175–181, 184, 186–187, 202–203, 212
  • Mass Transit Railway (MTR), 172, 174–175, 196, 206
  • Mass Transit Railway Corporation (MTRC), 172–173, 193–194
  • Mobility 2035 plan, 202, 227, 242, 255, 326n86
  • new lines for, 10, 14, 35, 42
  • PRL and, 38
  • trucks and, 26
• Rain, 49, 98–99, 110, 112
• Reagan, Ronald, 5
• Real estate
  • air quality and, 76
  • China, 142, 236, 238
  • food and, 132–133, 136, 142
  • goods movement and, 26
  • Hong Kong, 16, 26, 76, 136, 142, 172–173, 262–263
  • Los Angeles, 9, 18, 101, 132–133, 176, 178, 212–215, 221–223, 239–240, 242, 253
  • open spaces and, 212–215, 221–223, 236, 238–240, 242
  • policy change, 253, 262–263
  • subdivisions, 8, 176, 178, 213–214
  • transportation and, 172–173, 176
  • water and, 101, 126
• Red Squad, 133
• Refugees, 160, 210
• Retailers
  • air quality and, 63
  • food, 133, 136–143, 151–152, 158, 161–162
  • goods movement and, 19, 25–27, 35, 52, 56
  • malls, 152, 172, 179, 194, 206, 218–219, 223, 226
  • open spaces and, 218–219
• Riots, 170, 205, 215, 225, 256
• Road rage, 180, 186
• Rolling Hills, 222
• Roman Empire, 46, 69
• Rubber, 9, 66, 178–179
• Russia, 83, 122, 195

• Sacramento Bay Delta, 102, 104
• Sacramento River, 102. See also Sacramento Bay Delta
• Sadik-Khan, Janette, 201–202
• Safe Drinking Water Act, 116
• Safe Ports Coalition, 257
• Safety
  • air quality, 76, 85–86
  • Coalition for a Safe Environment
  • food, 16, 18, 20, 86, 136, 138, 142, 146–147, 151–152, 154, 159, 161–162, 242, 305n52, 311n75
  • industrial, 52–53
  • nuclear, 257
  • open spaces and, 206, 208, 221, 223–224, 228
  • policy change, 254, 257, 262
  • transportation, 13, 165, 167, 182–183, 185, 201
  • water, 86, 116, 118, 120, 126
• Salisbury Road, 165–166, 168
• Salt, 134, 145, 147, 153
• San Bernardino, 42, 44, 102, 132
• San Diego, 102, 105
• San Fernando Valley, 222
• San Gabriel Mountains, 8, 99, 116
• San Gabriel River, 101, 115
• San Gabriel Valley, 131
• San Pedro, 21, 55
• Santa Fe Railroad, 175
• São Paulo, 6
• SARS, 18, 135, 248, 252, 339n10
• Savannah, 36
• Scheme of Control agreement, 80
• Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 90
• “Seeds of Change” (UCLA report), 143–144
• Semiperipheral cities, 6
• Seoul, 75
• Sewage, 66, 97, 99, 119, 123–125, 154, 230
• Shanghai
  • air quality, 63, 86
  • container port ranking of, 17t, 266n17
  • food and, 162
  • gas masks, 63
  • gated communities, 236
  • global city status of, 18
  • goods movement, 26, 37, 46–47
  • growing role of, 265n4
  • Huangpu River and, 122
  • immigrants from, 12
  • open spaces, 21
  • policy change, 260
  • protests in, 341n22
  • regional geographies, 22
  • Tier 1 developments and, 22
  • transportation, 188–190, 193–195
  • urban dynamics of, 21
  • water and, 122, 123
• Shantou, 13
• Sharing the Harvest farm, 162–163
• Shau Kei Wan, 170
• Shek Kip Mei, 172
• Shekou, 32
• Shenzhen
  • air quality, 72, 92–93
  • container port ranking of, 17t, 26, 266n17
  • global city status of, 4, 18
  • goods movement, 1, 19, 21, 25–26, 30, 32, 37, 40, 48, 58
  • immigrants, 194–195, 197–198, 234–235
  • as megacity, 17
  • open spaces, 21, 234–238
  • policy change, 248, 257
  • as special economic zone (SEZ), 13
  • as Tier 1 city, 22
  • transportation, 172–173, 190–198
  • urban dynamics of, 21, 234
  • water and, 97, 113–114, 118–119
• Sheung Wan, 210, 216, 230
• Shi Yan, 155, 162–164
• Ships
  • air quality and, 39
  • emissions, 1, 39–40, 47–50, 57–58
  • goods movement, 25–26, 35, 38–40, 47–50, 54–58, 134
  • Nicaragua Canal, 36–37
  • Panama Canal, 34–37
  • sulfur content of fuel, 1, 49–50, 55, 58, 73, 80, 83, 91
• Shuanghui International, 151
• Sichuan, 249
• Siddell, Linda, 340n19
• Sidewalks
  • condition of, 227–228
  • Hong Kong, 224–226
  • Los Angeles, 226–229
  • pedestrians and, 145, 165, 167–168, 184, 207, 222, 224–229
  • vending and, 227–229
• Siemens, 127
• Sierra Nevada mountains, 101
• Sig Alert, 186
• Sikhs, 132
• Silk, 29, 46
• Skyscrapers, 72, 235
• Smil, Vaclav, 86
• Smog, 7, 61, 62f, 66–67, 72–73, 80, 87, 89, 92, 94
• Smog-A-Tears, 61, 62f, 67
• Smoke, 66, 73–74, 77
• Smokey Joe incinerators, 77
• Socialist Party (US), 253
• Social justice, 246
• Social media, 87, 91, 205, 253, 260
• Social welfare, 5, 224
• Songhua River, 122
• Songming Xu, 197
• South Coast Air Quality Management District, 72, 78–79, 254, 274n54, 339n15
• Southern California
  • air quality, 45, 61, 78
  • Chinese population of, 19
  • driver’s licenses, 320n39
  • environmental issues, 20
  • food, 132, 140–141
  • goods movement, 35, 40–42, 45, 51–52
  • Inland Empire and, 35, 45, 68, 72
  • Los Angeles and, 7 (see also Los Angeles)
  • Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, 7, 21, 102–103, 109
  • open spaces, 213, 221, 223
  • policy change, 246, 254
  • rail, 42
  • transportation, 179
  • urban development, 7–11
  • water, 102–106, 109, 116–117, 123–125
• Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), 41
• Southern California International Gateway (SCIG), 42, 57, 273n48
• Southern Pacific, 175
• South Korea, 1
• South-North Water Diversion Project, 120, 124, 250, 294n50
• Soy, 150, 154
• Special Economic Zones (SEZs), 13, 81, 113–114, 234, 257
• Sprawl, 7, 9, 44, 160, 210, 214, 236, 242, 255–256
• Squatter areas, 12, 210–211
• Stamp Out Smog (SOS), 67
• State Implementation Plan (SIP), 70
• Streetcars, 175–177, 181, 214
• Street culture, 207, 224–230
• Stress
  • air quality and, 77, 86
  • environmental issues and, 24, 43, 77, 86, 121–122, 183, 187, 229, 245, 263
  • noise and, 43, 183, 187
  • psychological issues and, 24, 43, 77, 122, 183, 187, 229, 245, 263
  • transportation and, 245
  • water and, 121–122
• Subdivisions, 8, 176, 178, 213–214
• Suburbanization, 7, 104, 107, 133, 194, 214
• Subways, 165, 169, 177, 182, 187, 193–194, 200
• Suez Environment, 127
• Sugar, 145, 147, 153
• Sulfur content of fuel, 1, 49–50, 55, 58, 73, 80, 83, 91
• Sulfur dioxide (SO₂), 39, 40, 49–50, 69, 74, 80–83, 86, 91. See also Sulfur oxides
• Sulfur oxides (SO_x), 48, 55
• Supermarkets, 8, 133, 137–143, 151–152, 185, 301n29, 303n37, 304n42
• Supply chains
  • food, 130, 139–140, 150, 152, 154, 160
  • goods movement, 5–6, 23, 26–27, 33, 130, 139–140, 150, 152, 154, 160
  • Walmart, 26, 35, 44, 56, 139–141, 151–152, 159
• Sustainability
  • agriculture and, 137, 148–149, 158, 161, 163–164
  • transportation and, 194, 203
• Swimming pools, 111, 218

• Taiwan, 12, 34, 142, 155, 167
• Tamar Park, 206
• Target, 302n32
• Tariffs, 46, 130
• Taxes, 150, 174, 178, 199–200, 209, 239, 256
• Taxis, 14, 83
• Tehachapi Mountains, 123
• Ten Measures to Improve Air Quality, 88
• Tesco, 140–141, 151–152
• Tetraethyl lead (TEL), 68–69, 278n12
• TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units), 27, 30–31, 33
• Textiles, 9, 12, 29–30, 94, 120–121
• Thames Water, 127
• Thatcher, Margaret, 5, 257
• THE [Trade, Health, and Environment] Impact Project, 51–52, 79
• Them (film), 115
• Tiananmen Square, 18, 205, 253, 258–259
• Tianjin, 17, 52–53, 88, 123, 192
• Tibet, 249
• Tier cities, 22, 86
• Tobey, Ronald, 132
• Tokyo, 6, 34, 75
• Tongva, 132
• Tourism
  • China, 18–19, 64, 198
  • Hong Kong, 114, 154, 165, 169–171, 208, 225, 230
  • Los Angeles, 61, 208
• Town Planning Ordinance (TPO), 210
• Toxic air contaminants (TACs), 41
• Toxicity
  • diesel vehicles and, 40–41
  • environmental issues and, 9, 40–41, 52, 69, 78, 82, 154, 183
  • MATES and, 78–79
  • mobile source air toxics (MSATs), 40–41
• Toys, 12, 25–28, 30, 267nn1,3, 287n3
• Traffic counts, 79
• Trams, 14, 165, 169–172, 174, 230–231, 240, 256
• Transportation
  • air quality and, 179–180, 183, 187
  • Alameda Corridor, 10, 35, 42
  • ArroyoFest and, 196–198, 200–201, 240
  • automobiles, 24 (see also Automobiles)
  • barges, 26–27, 37
  • as battleground, 165–168
  • Beijing, 173, 188–195
  • bicycles, 11, 42, 167, 169, 175–177, 181–190, 195–196, 200–203, 206, 224, 227, 231, 240, 242, 255, 262, 326n86
  • built environment and, 178, 181
  • buses, 14, 84, 165, 168–175, 178–183, 186, 195–196, 199–200, 203, 207, 230, 240, 317n17
  • Carmageddon, 181
  • cheap, 189, 193
  • China, 166, 168–174, 187–203
  • congestion, 14, 31, 33, 38, 41, 77, 169, 174, 180–184, 187, 190, 192, 199, 202, 207, 225, 230, 240, 242, 255
  • Cross Harbour Tunnel, 170
  • danger to pedestrians, 165–167
  • diesel vehicles, 26–27, 40–42, 51, 54–56, 66, 77, 79, 83–84, 90–91, 245, 246
  • driver’s licenses, 320n39
  • evolving systems of, 168–181
  • exports and, 187–189, 195
  • fatalities, 183–184, 186, 188, 202, 325n84
  • ferries, 14, 54, 169–172
  • freeways (see Transportation: highways)
  • gridlock, 180, 242
  • Guangzhou, 172–173, 188–194
  • health issues, 175, 180, 183, 187, 189, 201
  • highways, 8, 13, 34–35, 40, 41, 43, 69, 77–78, 138, 175, 178–181, 183–187, 192, 195–197, 212, 214, 231, 240, 245, 263
  • Hong Kong, 13–15, 165–175, 181–186, 193–194, 196, 199–203
  • I-110 closure, 196–197
  • legal issues, 185, 199
  • liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and
  • Los Angeles, 165, 167–168, 174–181, 184–189, 195–196, 199–203
  • manufacturing and, 187–192, 195
  • Metropolitan Transportation Authority, 180
  • Ministry of Transport, 49, 53
  • Mobility 2035 plan, 202, 227, 242, 255, 326n86
  • Nicaragua Canal, 36–37
  • noise and, 180–184, 187
  • open spaces and, 177, 203, 238, 258
  • ordinances, 170
  • parking, 8, 138–139, 177, 179, 181–185, 192, 214, 232–233, 237
  • Pearl River Delta, 194
  • petroleum and, 9, 83
  • phantom trips, 185
  • policy change, 248, 252, 256, 258
  • pollution and, 27, 174, 179–180, 183, 187, 192, 196, 200
  • population issues and, 167, 170, 172–174, 182–183, 188, 191, 194, 199
  • production and, 188–189
  • protest and, 196
  • public space and, 169
  • quality of life issues, 175, 183–184
  • rail, 7 (see also Rail)
  • real estate and, 172–173, 176, 178
  • road rage, 180, 186
  • safety, 13, 165, 167, 182–183, 185
  • Shanghai, 188–190, 193–195
  • Shenzhen, 172–173, 190–198
  • ships, 1 (see also Ships)
  • sidewalks, 145, 165, 167–168, 184, 207, 222, 224–229
  • Sig Alerts, 186
  • streetcars, 175–177, 181, 214
  • stress and, 245
  • subways, 165, 169, 177, 182, 187, 193–194, 200
  • sulfur content of fuel, 1, 49–50, 55, 58, 73, 80, 83, 91
  • supply chains and, 5–6, 23, 26–27, 33, 130, 139–140, 150, 152, 154
  • sustainability and, 194, 203
  • taxis, 14, 83
  • trams, 14, 165, 169–172, 174, 230–231, 240, 256
  • trolleys, 224
  • trucks, 63 (see also Trucks)
  • urban development and, 173, 176, 179
  • Vision Zero, 202, 325n84
• Trench, David, 30, 140, 260
• Trihalomethanes (THMs), 116–117
• Trolleys, 224
• Trucks
  • air quality and, 63, 66, 77–79, 94
  • American Trucking Association, 56
  • China, 54, 63, 94, 273n46
  • Clean Trucks program, 55–56, 254
  • cross-border container peak, 31
  • diesel, 54–56, 79 (see also Diesel vehicles)
  • emissions, 55–56, 254
  • food and, 132, 145
  • goods movement and, 8, 10, 25–27, 31, 34–35, 37–44, 51–56, 254
  • Hong Kong, 37–39, 271n36
  • Los Angeles, 10, 34–35, 40–44, 51–52, 66, 77–79, 132, 145, 180–181, 184, 202, 251
  • policy change, 251, 254
  • rail and, 26–27
  • relationships with retailers, 27
  • unloading process, 26
• Tsang, Donald, 75, 83, 93
• Tse, Crystal, 266n15
• Tsim Sha Tsui, 165–166, 168, 170, 229–230
• Tung Chee-hwa, 83
• Twitter, 87, 91
• Typhoons, 98, 112
• Tyson Foods, 129–131, 139, 150, 298n1

• Union Pacific, 42, 175
• United Nations, 12
• University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 5, 79, 94, 143–144, 200, 281n37, 319n35, 320n36
• University of Hong Kong, 75–76, 111, 146, 247, 280n30
• University of Hull, 246–247
• University of Southern California (USC), 51, 67, 78–79, 281n37
• Unloading, 17, 26, 33, 40, 54, 182
• Upper class, 8, 109, 154, 218, 221–223, 232
• Urban & Environmental Policy Institute (UEPI), 2–3, 156
• Urban Courier, 211
• Urban development
  • agriculture and, 7–8, 16, 136, 141, 154–155, 157–158, 160, 255
  • air quality and, 49
  • architecture and, 7, 179, 181, 206, 222, 237
  • China, 49, 98, 122, 173, 237
  • Committee of 25, 9
  • demolition and, 137, 229, 236
  • farms and, 16, 45, 130
  • food and, 134–135, 137
  • gated communities, 217–218, 221–223, 226, 236–237, 242
  • gentrification, 186, 216, 262
  • Guangdong, 11, 13–15, 17, 234
  • Hong Kong, 11–16, 134
  • Los Angeles, 7–11, 101–104, 107, 115, 117, 176, 179, 214, 217, 253
  • malls, 152, 172, 179, 194, 206, 218–219, 223, 226
  • modernization, 10, 16–18, 30–31, 37, 121, 123, 150, 153, 155, 225, 235–236, 242–243
  • Planning Standards, 211, 217–218, 220
  • policy change, 253
  • quality of life issues, 43, 78, 175, 183–184, 208
  • residency permits, 148–149
  • safety, 206, 208, 221, 223–224, 228
  • skyscrapers, 72, 235
  • sprawl, 7, 9, 44, 160, 210, 214, 236, 242, 255–256
  • suburbanization, 7, 104, 107, 133, 194, 214
  • sustainability and, 203, 238, 258
  • taxes and, 150, 174, 178, 199–200, 209, 239, 256
  • transportation and, 173, 176, 179
  • water and, 98, 101, 104, 107, 115, 117, 122, 127
• US Army Corps of Engineers, 98, 232
• US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 41, 55, 68, 70, 79, 254, 285n66, 287n9, 292n37
• US Supreme Court, 215

• Vanke City, 236–237
• Vantone Holdings, 238
• Vegetables, 129, 132–139, 141, 145–146, 148, 151, 153–154, 159, 161, 224
• Vending, 145, 227–229, 334n81
• Veolia, 127, 171, 297n68
• Victoria Harbor, 170, 229–230
• Villaraigosa, Antonio, 10–11, 201
• Visibility, 61, 66–67, 72–73
• Vision Zero, 202, 325n84
• Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
• Volkswagen (VW), 90, 285n66

• Walmart, 26, 35, 44, 56, 139–141, 151–152, 159, 246, 302nn30,32, 308n70
• Wan Chai, 170, 230
• Wang Hui, 250
• Wang, James, 237
• Wang Qingliang, 235
• Warehouses, 10, 25, 27, 35, 40, 44–45, 52–53, 79, 229
• Waste, 74, 97–98, 115, 118–127, 130, 158, 161, 198–199, 296n64
• Watches, 12, 30
• Water
  • activists and, 109
  • agriculture and, 97–98, 104, 106, 112, 115–127
  • aqueducts, 101–102, 104, 108–109t, 123, 253
  • black rainstorms, 98
  • bottled, 117, 125–126
  • canals, 34–37, 104–105, 123–124
  • carcinogens, 116
  • China, 18, 111–114, 117, 119–128, 258
  • Civic Exchange and, 97
  • consumers and, 118, 120
  • dams, 86, 101, 124, 250
  • Dongjiang River, 52, 97–98, 112–114, 118–119, 124, 286n1
  • drought, 106–113, 255–256, 290n27
  • farms and, 118, 121, 213
  • filters, 117
  • floods, 8, 98–99, 115, 124–125, 177–178, 232–234
  • fountains, 111, 125–126
  • groundwater, 9, 99, 101, 106, 111, 115–121, 132, 293n42
  • Guangdong, 97, 112–114, 118–120, 124, 126
  • Guangzhou, 97, 123, 126
  • harbors, 11, 28–29, 34, 37–38, 77, 165, 170, 172, 176, 219, 221, 229–231, 247
  • health issues, 102, 111–112, 116, 118, 122, 125–128
  • Hong Kong, 97–98, 110–114, 118–121, 124–130, 134–137, 141–143, 146–148, 153–155, 159–164, 229–232, 291n30, 296n62
  • Hoover Dam, 101
  • Huangpu River, 122
  • imported, 7, 104, 124
  • Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), 106
  • irrigation, 107, 109
  • Jinsha River, 248–251
  • kayak expeditions, 97–98, 100, 287n9
  • land use and, 104, 109–110
  • lawns and, 107, 109
  • Los Angeles, 7, 97–120, 124, 126, 128–147, 152–160, 164, 232–234
  • manufacturing and, 112–113, 125
  • Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, 7, 21, 102–103, 109
  • open spaces and, 229–234
  • Pearl River Delta, 112, 114, 119
  • pesticides and, 118, 123, 290n26
  • policy change, 250–256, 258
  • population effects on, 111, 113–114, 119–121, 123, 126
  • privatization and, 126–127
  • production and, 112, 116, 121–123
  • protest and, 122
  • quality of, 3, 18, 23, 86, 97, 106, 111, 114–128, 230, 237
  • rain, 49, 98–99, 110, 112
  • real estate and, 101, 126
  • restricted use of, 105, 107, 118
  • safety of, 86, 116, 118, 120, 126
  • Shanghai, 122–123
  • Shenzhen, 97, 113–114, 118–119
  • South-North Water Diversion Project, 120, 124, 250, 294n50
  • supply issues, 3, 7, 15, 23, 101–127
  • swimming pools, 111, 218
  • THMs and, 116–117
  • transfer programs, 104, 112, 120, 128, 250
  • typhoons, 98, 112
  • urban development and, 98, 101, 104, 107, 115, 117, 122, 127
  • Yangtze River, 47–49, 88, 121, 124, 195, 248
  • yard ordinance, 107
  • Yellow River, 123
• Water for a Barren Rock (Ho), 111
• Watersheds, 21–23, 101–102, 105–106, 114–115, 118, 120, 128
• Webb, Del, 223
• Weibo, 87
• Wellcome Company, 142–143
• Wen Jiabao, 274n57
• Wen Tiejun, 155, 164
• Western Harbor Tunnel Crossing, 230
• Wetherell, Charles, 132
• Wetlands, 55
• Wharf Holdings, 171
• WH Group, 151, 308n66
• Wigs, 12
• Wikipedia, 223
• Winder, Clarence, 61
• Wolff, Goetz, 5
• Wong, Alan, 168
• Wong Kam-sing, 16
• Woo, Peter K. C., 171
• World Bank, 6, 88, 119, 293n49
• World cities, 5–7, 189, 506
• World Health Organization (WHO), 41, 74–75, 83, 85–86, 88, 118
• World Trade Organization (WTO), 6, 46, 47, 151–152
• World War II era
  • grocery stores, 142
  • Hong Kong, 12, 29, 34, 170, 174, 210, 256
  • housing, 214, 223
  • Los Angeles, 8, 20–21, 133, 214–215, 253
  • manufacturing, 8
  • population issues, 12, 21
  • suburbanization, 104, 107

• Xi Jinping, 53, 64–65, 84, 88
• Xiamen, 13, 260, 341n22
• Xiao Liangzhong, 248–251
• Xinhua, 53, 89

• Yangtze River, 47–49, 88, 121, 124, 195, 248
• Yantian, 32
• Yao Chen, 87, 283n57
• Yard ordinances, 107
• Yau Tsim Mong District Council, 225–226
• Yellow River, 123
• YouTube, 166
• Yu Qingtai, 189
• Yunnan, 248–249

• Zhang Gaoli, 85
• Zhou Enlai, 113
• Zhu Ronji, 124, 259
• Zhuhai, 13, 32
• Zoning, 210, 212–217, 231, 239
• Zuccotti Park, 205
• Zurich, 6