Resource Consumption of New Urban Construction in China

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Is Materialism All That Bad? Effects on Satisfaction with Material Life, Life Satisfaction, and Economic Motivation (2013, background): “The economics literature implies that materialism contributes significantly to a positive quality of life (e.g., Arndt 1981; Britton 2010; Bunker and Ciccantell 2003; Fata-Villafranca and Saura-Bacaicoa 2004; Fernandez 2007; Kilbourne et al. 1997).”
A global fingerprint of macro-scale changes in urban structure from 1999 to 2009 (2013, background): “Urban backscatter increases in China are strongly correlated with increases in provincial residential floor area (figure 1), which represents ∼70–80% of new floor space completed in China between 1999 and 2009 [27, 28].”
Industrial Ecology and the Global Impacts of Cities (2007, background): “Fernández (2007) examines the material resources consumed in typical Chinese construction and outlines the emerging life-cycle issues of these recent additions to the built environment.”