Collection of Papers on Urban Development and Planning in China: 1st International Conference on Urban Development and Planning in China

Author: Editorial Committee of this Book
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: What will the future of China and the world be like? To a large extent, it depends on what contemporary Chinese people do during the rapid urbanization process. Unfortunately or perhaps fortunately, China's rapid urbanization is coinciding with numerous social, economic, and technological changes such as marketization, globalization, legalization, informatization, and motorization. In other words, the complex contradictions during the transformation period will profoundly influence or even determine the trajectory of urbanization—the path of reforming the urban planning system. In this era of information explosion, unprecedented rates of change, and confusion, facing the numerous problems, contradictions, or even crises of urbanization in China, it is undoubtedly a necessary path to ensure healthy urbanization by fully learning from and absorbing the experiences and lessons of urbanization pioneers in the world, thereby conducting reforms of the urban planning system in an orderly manner and avoiding pitfalls. In short, the success or failure of urban planning reform during our transformation period is directly related to the health of urbanization in our country, the construction of a resource-saving and environment-friendly society, and even the global sustainable development. The content of this book includes: campus planning in the context of globalization and informatization; the systematization and innovation of urban planning design and regulatory detailed rules; the protection of urban historical and cultural heritage, the continuation and creation of distinctive characteristics, etc.