Another Shenzhen: Towards an Urban Regeneration Model for Intercultural Integration

Shenzhen has long been seen as the ‘World Factory’ and a ‘Cultural Desert’. However in the era of knowledge based development, it is urgent to explore new strategies on urban regeneration in the perspective of intercultural integration. The migration of multiple sub ethic groups in the history as well as the migrant workers from nationwide since...

Pursuing Authentic City: Create new self-sustaining system of authentic city in Guangzhou historic city centre, China

Evaluation of plan implementation; Peri-urban development and the Shanghai Master Plan 1999-2020

Shanghai, like the other big cities along China’s coastline, has witnessed extraordinary growth in its economy and population with industrial development and rural-to-urban migration generating extensive urban expansion. Shanghai’s GDP growth rate has been over 10 per cent for more than 15 years. Its population in 2013 was estimated at 23.47...

Implementation of the Shanghai Master Plan (1999-2020)

This paper intends to evaluate implementation of Shanghai Master Plan: 2001-2020 (01SHMP), which concerned peripheral development and urban restructuring.