China City Planning Review (No.2, 2018)

♦Multi-Plan Integration: A Pilot Study of Mianzhu, Sichuan Province

Author：Fu Fei, Li Yanjin, Zhang Yingzi, Yang Yi

Abstract：The current planning system in China lacks coordination, which is a crucial issue to be explored to fully implement the multi-plan integration. Mianzhu is an example that is officially named as one of the pilot cities for multi-plan integration on the county level. The paper firstly analyzes the problems associated with multi-plan integration in Mianzhu, including the indeterminate hierarchy of the planning system, the disunity of technical standards, problems regarding spatial order, coordination and division of powers and functions, and the intensive utilization of spatial resources, the lack of a coordination mechanism, and low participation of experts and the public. Secondly, by learning from Germany’s spatial planning, and also practical experiences of pilot cities for multi-plan integration in China, this paper creatively brings in the connotation of multi-plan integration on the county level, and further proposes a power division based on three-level planning system and three kinds of space, the reinforcement of a spatial order, intensive spatial utilization, and a planning coordination mechanism, hoping to provide reference to other cities.

Keywords：pilot city for multi-plan integration; county-level planning system; spatial planning and order; power control and coordination; Mianzhu

♦On Reforming City Comprehensive Planning: From Viewpoint of Multi-Plan Integration

Author：Zhang Jie, Zhao Min

Abstract：At the moment when many Chinese cities are undertaking the tasks of compiling new city comprehensive planning and carrying out the pilot work of multi-plan integration, this paper analyzes the relationship between the two tasks, and then reviews the role and contents, as well as the procedure of formulation, examination and approval of city comprehensive planning. The real meaning of multi-plan integration is to put multiple plans in one framework for coordinated operation, within which city comprehensive planning should be more strategy-oriented and be considered together with other plans, such as spatial development at the city-region level and structural management at the city and township levels.

Keywords：city comprehensive planning; multi-plan integration; reform suggestions

♦Reflections and Explorations on the Decremented Regulation of Construction Land in the New Beijing City Master Planning

Author：Chang Qing, Xu Qinzheng, Yang Chun, Wang Shan

Abstract：Construction land use has always been a key point for the planning department to practice national transformation strategy. In the new round of compilation of Beijing City Master Plan, the management of construction land use is under the rigid restriction of the bearing capacity of resources and the environment. Setting the upper-limit of the population size, a general strategy of decremented development of urban-rural construction land has been put forward, in order to realize a transition from quantitative expansion planning to qualitative upgrading planning. By “decremented development,” “decremented” means a more rigid bottom-line restriction, and “development” means a more scientific allocation of resources. From the master planning level, the new Beijing City Master Plan establishes a comprehensive control framework and restrictive index system from perspectives including land use scale, construction scale, space boundary, urban and rural structure, land use structure, and cross-boundary collaboration; and in practice, it promotes strict management methods by setting up a dismantle-construction land ratio, dismantle-construction building area ratio, employment and residence land ratio, and “two lines and three districts,” which is an exploration on the planning management method of construction land use that is stock-based and decremented master planning. Considering that decremented development is a major reform and a special challenge to planning implementation, the Beijing City Master Plan carries out explorations in terms of the planning management method, land policy, jurisdiction division, assessment and supervision, etc.

Keywords：master plan; decremented development; urban and rural construction land; comprehensive control; Beijing

♦Strategic Guidance & Rigid Control: Innovation of Urban Master Planning in the New Period by Taking Shanghai 2040 Master Plan as an Example

Author：Zhang Shangwu, Jin Zhongmin, Wang Xinzhe, Zheng Degao, Hu Guojun, Fang Lan, Shi Tingting, Wu Kexin, Wang Lili, Sun Ye

Abstract：The reform of urban master planning should make continuous progress to meet the requirements of urban and rural spatial resource control in the urbanization transformation period, considering its role of both strategic guidance and rigid control. As urban development in Shanghai is entering the era of stock-based development, it is important for the Shanghai 2040 Master Plan to upgrade urban strategies to adapt to the transformation environment of urban development, and to adjust the master planning system in line with Shanghai’s reality. This article analyzes the development environment and challenges faced by the Shanghai 2040 Master Plan and reflects on the limitations of traditional master planning. To facilitate the spatial development transformation and spatial governance, the article summarizes the innovation ideas of the Shanghai 2040 Master Plan from aspects of functions, outcome framework, control system, organization format, etc.

Keywords：Shanghai 2040; reform of master planning; function of master plan; outcome system

♦Reform and Innovation of Urban Master Planning: Taking Dongguan as an Example

Author：Zhu Li

Abstract：This paper analyzes the function of a master plan and the growing emphasis on its public policy attribute, and argues that in terms of the current plan formulation, major disadvantages of current master planning lie in the physical spatial epistemology, the blueprint-oriented work method, and over-technical expression of the planning deliveries. Based on the reform and innovation in formulating the City Master Plan of Dongguan (2016 – 2030), the paper explores experiences of Dongguan on spatial structure, planning management and control approaches, and delivery format.

Keywords：master plan; reform; innovation; Dongguan City

♦Poverty Decentralization or Reconcentration: An Empirical Study of the Effects of Collected Public Rental Housing in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province

Author：Sun Jie, Zhu Xigang, Song Weixuan, Liu Fengbao

Abstract：Based on the supply-side reform objective, it is a great transformation of housing welfare measures in China to collect private unoccupied houses as public rental housing instead of building new ones. Through an empirical study of the Collecting Houses as Public Rental Housing Program in Changzhou, this paper finds that the collected houses is relatively scattered in the city, which is beneficial to avoiding over-centralization and marginalization of the poor families. However, it has resulted in poverty reconcentration in some old communities, probably further leading to spatial solidification of the poor as well as a further decline of old communities. Therefore it may not effectively solve the housing problems of the poor population by providing this alternative public rental housing, which is collected according to economic efficiency. Accordingly, the paper argues that it is necessary to reinforce community development and to renovate the declined communities in time, as an important supplement to housing welfare

improvement.

Keywords：poverty decentralization; poverty reconcentration; collected public rental housing; Changzhou

♦Research on the Spatial Axis System of Xianyang in the Qin Dynasty Based on the Ancient Planning Tradition of Bianfang Zhengwei

Author：Guo Lu

Abstract：As the capital of the first unified Chinese empire, the planning and design of Xianyang in the Qin Dynasty is of significant value in the historical research of urban planning. However, its urban spatial structure is still ambiguous due to the insufficient historical literature and archaeological findings, thereby enforcing the breakthrough of extant research visions and methods. This paper is a tentative response to this issue from the perspective of urban planning. Firstly, the paper infers that the method of Bianfang Zhengwei [Orientation Identification and Position Determination] has been applied in the planning of Xianyang in the Qin Dynasty based on the study of the planning tradition of pre-Qin and Qin-Han dynasties. Secondly, it recognizes and reorganizes the related literature documents and archaeological findings according to the clue of “Core Establishment” and “Orientation Determination,” to identify the axis system of Xianyang with the Polar Temple and Epang Palace as the core, based on which the spatial structure of Xianyang is revealed. Ultimately, it expounds the methodological and practical significance of this study.

Keywords：Bianfang Zhengwei; Xianyang; axis; urban spatial structure