Print Email Facebook Twitter Beyond the Greenways: A People-Centered Urban Planning and Design Approach for Shenzhen, the 'World Factory' in Transition Title Beyond the Greenways: A People-Centered Urban Planning and Design Approach for Shenzhen, the 'World Factory' in Transition Author Qu, L. Fu, B. Calabrese, L.M. Faculty Architecture and The Built Environment Department Urbanism Date 2015-06-10 Abstract Greenway as landscaped, linear and multi-purpose component of urban planning has been increasingly used globally, especially in cities experiencing de-industrialization process. It has the potential to restructure city regions and improve connectivity of public spaces, making cities greener and friendlier to pedestrians and cyclists. There is no doubt that greenway could be seen as a tool of planning and design for creating green cities. However, without considering the specific demands of people who are the daily users of green spaces, this tool might not lead to truly green cities that people living in it appreciate. This paper is proposing a people-centered approach for planning and design of greenway systems, with the focus of transforming newly industrialized areas into liveable cities for local residents. The context of this paper is Shenzhen (China), known as the ‘world factory’, which is currently in the transitional period towards a ‘world city’. The authors will present an integrated greenway system proposal for Dalang, a peri-urban district of Shenzhen. It takes into account the daily lives of local residents (young migrant workers) and their demands on urban nature spaces. It is expected that with such a people-centered approach, bio-diversity, urban amenity and social interaction could be enhanced simultaneously. Subject greenway systemurban nature spacesocial interactionShenzhen To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9e35dcef-9836-4b68-8945-157bd3d77cf9 Publisher Sciforum (MDPI) Source https://doi.org/10.3390/ifou-D010 Source Proceedings of the 8th Conference of the International Forum Urbanism, Incheon, Korea, 22–24 June 2015 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2015 The Author(s)This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license Files PDF 320102.pdf 4.75 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:9e35dcef-9836-4b68-8945-157bd3d77cf9/datastream/OBJ/view