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Five new towns in Shanghai : Present situation and future perspectives
In China it is predicted that during the next 40 years, no fewer than 300 million people will leave the countryside and move to urban regions. One way of meeting this challenge is to establish new cities and new towns and in Shanghai many efforts in this direction have been made. One example is the One City Nine Towns Plan launched in 2001. As part of this urban experiment, each town within the plan features urban design and architectural features from countries in Europe and also from the US. I was involved in the planning of the Swedish New Town between 2001-2004 as chief architect at Sweco and have since then been interested in the outcome of planning on the ground. Due to a grant from FFNS foundation at Sweco, I had the opportunity to make a study trip to five of the new towns within this plan in the autumn of 2013. The main criteria for selecting new towns for field studies is their accessibility from the new metro system. It would not have been possible to cover all the ten or eleven towns within the plan as the scope of the study also has certain limitations as for time and resources. The chosen topics for this overall study has been the following aspects: • The urban structure including the development of the thematic urban centers in the new towns, specifically reflecting urban design and architectural features from the different countries outside China • Transportation with a specific focus on public transportation, bicycling and walking, • Public space in relation to the Chinese culture of developing gated communities, • Green and water space and to what extent environmental measures have been taken. This field study of five new towns within the One City Nine Towns plan in Shanghai is limited in scope and covers some of the relevant aspects when analyzing the new town phenomenon. I am convinced that there is a need for continuous studies of both different aspects and the entire picture in depth. It is of course not sufficient to confine the studies to field observations as an approach even if this is ...
Five new towns in Shanghai : Present situation and future perspectives
In China it is predicted that during the next 40 years, no fewer than 300 million people will leave the countryside and move to urban regions. One way of meeting this challenge is to establish new cities and new towns and in Shanghai many efforts in this direction have been made. One example is the One City Nine Towns Plan launched in 2001. As part of this urban experiment, each town within the plan features urban design and architectural features from countries in Europe and also from the US. I was involved in the planning of the Swedish New Town between 2001-2004 as chief architect at Sweco and have since then been interested in the outcome of planning on the ground. Due to a grant from FFNS foundation at Sweco, I had the opportunity to make a study trip to five of the new towns within this plan in the autumn of 2013. The main criteria for selecting new towns for field studies is their accessibility from the new metro system. It would not have been possible to cover all the ten or eleven towns within the plan as the scope of the study also has certain limitations as for time and resources. The chosen topics for this overall study has been the following aspects: • The urban structure including the development of the thematic urban centers in the new towns, specifically reflecting urban design and architectural features from the different countries outside China • Transportation with a specific focus on public transportation, bicycling and walking, • Public space in relation to the Chinese culture of developing gated communities, • Green and water space and to what extent environmental measures have been taken. This field study of five new towns within the One City Nine Towns plan in Shanghai is limited in scope and covers some of the relevant aspects when analyzing the new town phenomenon. I am convinced that there is a need for continuous studies of both different aspects and the entire picture in depth. It is of course not sufficient to confine the studies to field observations as an approach even if this is ...
Five new towns in Shanghai : Present situation and future perspectives
Ranhagen, Ulf (author)
2014-01-01
201-04
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Electronic Resource
English
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