New town modeling: Reviewing Dutch new towns via quantitative methods to provide appropriate tools and strategy for accelerating Chinese new town development, using songjiang new town as the test case

China turned to the Open-Policy in 1978 and began its rapid urbanization process. To handle the urgent demand from working migration and reduce the problems triggered by congestion in mega cities, decentralization and new towns are widely accepted by Chinese urbanists and politicians. However, new towns in China lost their urbanity in the...

Toward network city suburban high-speed train station as a new node in the network

This project is dealing with the urban issue arised from the arrival of High-speed train system in the suburban area and how to integrate a new centrality (HST node) into the regional development.