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).