Exploring Chinese New Towns

Exploring Chinese New Towns - urbanNext, April 13, 2018 - 1885 words.

Angelo Sampieri, Essay, Francesca Governa, FULL, Michele Bonino, No Density, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

Beijing, China, City, Density, Ecological urbanism, Essay, Future Urban Legacy Lab, Global Awareness, Planetary urbanizations, Population, Tongzhou, Urban Legacy, Urban mobility, Urban Paradigms, Urban planning, Urban sprawl, Urbanisation

Michele Bonino (DAD), Francesca Governa and Angelo Sampieri (DIST), China Room, FULL - Future Urban Legacy Lab, Politecnico di Torino (Italy)

Tongzhou, Zhaoqing and Zhengdong are three examples of the huge financial and organisational undertaking of the Chinese Government in “city making”. In fact, in the early twenty-first century, Chinese Government announced it had decided to build twenty new cities each year for the next twenty years; in total, approximately 400 new cities will be designed and built before 2020 (Shepard, 2015; Fang & Yu, 2016).

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Cities Development Policies New Towns China

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