City CBD and CBD system

Author: Chen Ying
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: The Urban CBD and CBD System Since the 1990s, the reorganization, exchange, and transformation of urban resources and assets centered around CBDs have marked a new stage in the development and construction of Chinese cities. Currently, the urban landscape revolution centered on CBDs is advancing the urban renewal process in China, transforming the overall appearance of Chinese cities. Against this backdrop, this book conducts an in-depth study of the CBD system of megacities from both theoretical and practical perspectives, exploring the objective laws and development models of CBD systems in underdeveloped regions of megacities. The topic is novel and holds theoretical pioneering and practical application significance.
At the theoretical level, the book thoroughly reveals the fundamental economic characteristics and spatial development patterns of urban CBD systems. Building on the theories of the location school, ecological school, and land economics school regarding CBDs, it introduces the new concept of flow economics and proposes new insights into the causes of CBD formation from the perspectives of economics and urban geography. This reflects the author's courage and innovative spirit in theoretical exploration. Specifically, the book enriches and refines the theoretical framework for CBD development in megacities through its analysis of CBD formation, types, and the theoretical exploration of sub-CBDs.
At the practical level, drawing on the planning and construction experience of CBD systems in eastern China's megacities, the book reveals the characteristics of CBD development in western China and proposes issues related to the transformation of CBDs and the construction of sub-CBDs in central western cities. It pioneers a research paradigm for CBD and sub-CBD development in western megacities and introduces new insights on "two types of cities and two sub-CBD models" for ancient capital cities and economic-type cities.
This book is a valuable reference for researchers in urban planning, urban studies, regional planning, regional economics, and human geography, as well as government administrators and students and faculty in relevant fields at universities and colleges.