City Planning Review（2024.4）

♦EXPLORATION AND PRACTICE OF DELIMITATION AND MANAGEMENT ON COASTAL CONSTRUCTION SETBACK LINES: A CASE STUDY OF THE LOVER’S ROAD COASTAL ZONE IN ZHUHAI CITY

Author: YANG Lei; XU Jinhua; XIANG Shouqian; ZHAO Yang

ABSTRACT: The current setback lines for coastal construction based on the concept of “delimitation control” are difficult to fully reflect the three major comprehensive considerations proposed by the country regarding the integrated protection of territorial and marine ecosystems (protection elements), the coordinated prevention and control of land-sea disasters (disaster prevention elements), and the management of maritime-related projects (development elements). This paper analyzes the challenges and breakthrough points in achieving land-sea integration within the delimitation of coastal construction setback lines from the perspectives of government administration, planning compilation, and theoretical research. It proposes a technical framework and delimitation method for coastal construction setback lines that integrate land-sea management from top-level governance,technical methods, and operational implementation, featuring the inclusion of two administrative zones and the realization of coordination among the three categories of elements. The paper further analyzes issues such as the classification of land and sea use for construction projects and construction standards during the delimitation process. In the end, this paper puts forth a scheme for the setback lines for coastal construction that embodies the concept of “Three Zones and Six Characteristics” and an integrated management vision with the Lover’s Road coastal zone in Zhuhai City as an empirical example.

KEYWORDS:  setback line for coastal construction; land-sea coordination; coastal zone management; Zhuhai

♦INTEGRATION OF INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGIES FOR DELIMITATING URBAN DEVELOPMENT BOUNDARIES: FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE SCIENCES OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS

Author: YANG Qinyu; YU Ting; ZHENG Xiaojin; WANG Chun; TIAN Li

ABSTRACT: The urban development boundary is a control tool for the bottom line of spatial growth, which is closely related to human activities and the construction of human settlements. The scientific delimitation of urban development boundaries requires the organic combination of the sciences of human settlements and intelligence technologies. At present, the academic circles do not have enough research on the theoretical basis behind the delimitation methods of urban development boundaries, and do not pay enough attention to the whole system of human settlements, especially the human factor. At the same time, various types of technology exploration are relatively fragmented, and there is a lack of full-process technology integration for boundary delimitation. Based on the sciences of human settlements, this paper proposes intelligence technology integration framework for the delimitation of urban development boundaries from the perspective of people’s needs as well as systematicness and complexity of human settlements, including key technologies coupling “dual evaluation”, system dynamics model, urban development potential pattern evaluation, and multi-scenario geographic simulation. In this way, it supports the prediction of demand for urban development, the research of territorial pattern and the planning of urban land layout, and provides a useful reference for the delimitation of urban development boundaries and the optimization of territorial pattern.

KEYWORDS:urban development boundary; integration of intelligence technologies; sciences 

of human settlements; dual evaluation; system dynamics model; cellular automata

♦URBAN REGENERATION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF PUBLIC VALUE: PRACTICAL PREDICAMENT, THEORETICAL LOGIC, AND GOVERNANCE PATH

Author：YANG Jing; QIN Bo

ABSTRACT: Urban regeneration is a major strategic decision of the CPC Central Committee and a necessary demand for high-quality development in the middle and late stages of China’s urbanization process. As urban regeneration practices are in full swing, their internal contradictions and problems have begun to surface. Therefore, it is urgent to introduce appropriate governance theories to steer the direction of institutional and policy provisions in urban regeneration. From the perspective of public value and taking the strategic triangle model of public value creation as an analytical framework, this paper summarizes China’s urban regeneration practices following the main line of “practical predicament, theoretical logic, and governance path”. It develops a theoretical logic framework of urban regeneration from the perspective of public value, in order to address the practical issues of unclear public values, insufficient guarantees in institutional design, and flaws in organizational operation. Building on the framework, it proposes a public value-oriented urban regeneration governance path that encompasses three dimensions: public value, institutional design, and organizational operation. This paper provides innovative insights into urban regeneration governance in the new era from the perspective of public value theory.

KEYWORDS: urban regeneration; public value creation; strategic triangle model; urban governance

♦TYPES, PROCESSES, AND KEY ISSUES OF RESIDENTIAL AREA REGENERATION: A CASE STUDY OF NANJING

Author: DONG Yinan; HAN Dongqing

ABSTRACT: As an important type of urban regeneration, residential area regeneration is closely related to people’s daily life and is a concrete embodiment of the “people-centered” development ideology. In recent years, Nanjing has made fruitful explorations and attempts in property rights sorting, capital investment, and mechanism development with the goal of “urban regeneration with warmth”. Resident-led and multi-participant self-regeneration has gradually become an effective model for the regeneration of different residential areas.

KEYWORDS: residential area; urban regeneration; self-regeneration; property rights; capital; mechanism

♦URBAN DEVELOPMENT MODEL AND PLANNING SUPPLY UNDER THE L-SHAPED ECONOMIC TRANSITION: A DEDUCTION FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF THE MULTIPLE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CAPITAL AND ITS COST

Author：GUO Leixian

ABSTRACT: The Chinese economy has entered a fluctuating and tortuous development stage after an L-shaped transition. With the proportion of urban population exceeding 65%, cities have become the central focus of high-quality development. On the one hand, the existing Chinese planning system has become relatively detached from the context of economic development. On the other hand, urban development and construction, as the two classic methods used to reverse the economic downturn in contemporary urban planning theory, have failed to address issues such as local government debt, externality regulations, and the loss of social capital. Combining the macroeconomic development trend of China, this article derives a project-based urban development and construction model that can overcome crises and promote recovery and development in the new stage, which is also in line with various optimization directions of the relationships between the capital and its cost, including economic capital, cost of economic capital, and social capital. It further sorts out the planning supply model that meets the demands above and proposes possible scenarios for urban planning transformation. On this basis, this article provides a basic argument on the long-term vitality of development-oriented urban planning paradigm.

KEYWORDS: urban planning; urban development model; economic downturn; urban finance; planning Reform

♦MATERIALIZATION OF PUBLIC INTERESTS IN URBAN REGENERATION PLANNING FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE “CONFLICT AND CONSENSUS” DEBATE: A CASE STUDY OF ENNINGLU AND BIJIANG COMMUNITIES

Author: ZHAO Nannan

ABSTRACT: Beginning with the discourse of the conceptualization of the “public interest”, we initially elucidate the various norms associated with the public sphere. Using the “communicative” norm as a framework, we identify two distinct models for realizing the public interest in urban regeneration planning. Through examination, the Enning Road case illustrates a consultative model geared towards “conflict mediation”, whereas the Bijiang case exemplifies a collaborative model focused on “consensus building”. These insights not only enrich our understanding of participatory planning dynamics but also offer pertinent policy recommendations to advance China’s burgeoning agenda concerning community regeneration.

KEYWORDS: urban regeneration; community governance; public interest; participatory planning; community planner; local knowledge

♦SPATIAL ENERGY PRODUCTION: A NEW PATH FOR LOW-CARBON URBAN SPATIAL TRANSITION IN THE ERA OF NEW ENERGY FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF INTEGRATION BETWEEN PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY PRODUCTION AND URBAN SPATIAL INTERACTION

Author: WANG Yizhe

ABSTRACT:  The new energy revolution is profoundly reshaping the human energy structure, which will have profound impacts on urban development and shape a brand-new landscape for urban-rural human settlements. During the transition from “old energy” to “new energy”, cities are evolving from energy “consumers” to energy “producers”, thereby driving a change in the interaction pattern between urban space and energy from “reducing fossil fuel consumption” to “increasing new energy production” under the guidance of a low-carbon principle. In line with the characteristics of photovoltaic energy production, this paper proposes the concept of spatial energy production, clarifies the characteristics of urban spatial energy production systems, and develops macroscopic urban spatial development evaluation models and microscopic urban spatial development and utilization models for spatial energy production. In addition, the paper identifies that the proportion, capacity efficiency, and scale threshold of energy production space are key issues influencing urban spatial energy production. To promote spatial energy production, it puts forwards the following three measures: promoting the integration of traditional functional property rights in urban space with property rights in energy production space; establishing a sunlight resource coordination mechanism for the entire urban space; developing an urban spatial layout and form design guided by spatial energy production.

KEYWORDS: spatial energy production; new energy; photovoltaics; low-carbon; urban space; 

transition

♦IDENTIFICATION, ATTRIBUTION, AND RESOLUTION OF TERRITORIAL SPACE CONFLICT IN URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS

Author: ZHAI Duanqiang

ABSTRACT:As urban agglomerations show strong spatial systems and complex human-land relations, a deep understanding of spatial conflicts and their resolution path is the prerequisites and foundations for the regulation and optimization of the spatial patterns of urban agglomerations. This paper studies the spatial conflicts in the territorial space, focusing on the distribution law, attribution, and resolution path of spatial conflicts in urban agglomerations. The paper firstly analyzes the concept, appearance and essence of spatial conflicts, and clarifies the basic problems at the conceptual level; secondly, it reveals the spatial distribution law of the current spatial conflicts in the urban agglomerations of the Yangtze River Delta, such as the type, intensity, and distribution, and clarifies the elements of geographic pattern, human activities, and sectoral games that influence the formation of spatial conflicts; then it summarizes the factors affecting the spatial conflicts in urban agglomerations, further dividing the spatial conflicts into “land-land conflicts”, “humanland conflicts”, and “human-human conflicts”, and “human-human conflicts”, and making clear the formation process of spatial conflicts. Finally, taking into account the technical and policy attributes, the study proposes ideas and paths for spatial conflict resolution in terms of order identification, functional integration, and inter-governmental collaboration. It is expected that the results of the paper can provide theoretical and technological support for the realization of refined regulation and governance of the territorial space.

KEYWORDS: urban agglomerations; space control; spatial control; pattern identification; planning response

♦“GUIHUA”: A LINGUISTIC EXAMINATION OF PLANNING AND ITS RELATED TERMINOLOGY

Author: LIU Jinhua

ABSTRACT:  Language is the main carrier of technology and culture. Many misconceptions that arise from logical misunderstandings in language use can only be clarified and eliminated through a logical analysis of language use. Starting from the basic requirements of terminology, this paper focuses on the ambiguity and vagueness of the term “planning (guihua in Chinese)” and its related terms in actual use, and introduces the basic knowledge of linguistics such as language morphological analysis. In accordance with relevant literature, archives, and engineering practices, the paper conducts a horizontal analysis of its basic meaning, summarizes its historical usage logic vertically, and distinguishes, refutes, and clarifies the comprehension ways of “guihua”-related terms and sentences one by one, striving to identify and understand the sources of “guihua” and its related concepts more clearly. “Guihua” is a result of the interaction of different languages, heterogeneous planning technology systems, and opposing ideologies. To shape “Chinese Planning” in Chinese-style modernization, we should be patient with the planning system, and enable the planning discipline to “speak Chinese” more accurately.

KEYWORDS: history of urban planning discipline; conceptual history; Chinese urban planning; terminology; linguistic analysis

♦A MICRO-LEVEL SAMPLE OF CHINA’S GRADUAL REFORM: INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE OF COLLECTIVELY-OWNED LAND IN NANHAI DISTRICT, FOSHAN CITY

Author: XUE Yanfu

ABSTRACT:  In order to cope with the great impact of institutional replacement, the Chinese government adopts the mode of gradual reform as a means of steady-state governance. This paper builds an analytical framework for the institutional change in gradual reform, carries out a diachronic study on the institutional change of collectively-owned land in Nanhai District, and points out that the institutional misalignment between Nanhai District and the Central Government in the initial stage has been a path-dependence factor in the micro-level gradual reform. The local government, as the subordinate government in the hierarchical administrative structure of China and the actual administrator of the social field, serves as a “lubricant” for the central system to regulate the social field. Meanwhile, it collaborates with market actors to engender innovative institutional change that can meet the actual local needs. Through the transmission and feedback of institutional change in related systems and the social field, the gradual reforms at both macro and micro levels can evolve in an interactive way. In the end, the paper concludes that local institutional change is an indispensable support for deepening the reforms in the social field and holds important practical value to the central institutional change.

KEYWORDS: gradual reform; institutional change; collectively-owned land system; Nanhai District

♦THE PATH TO SUCCESS OF CONSERVATION OF CITY WALL IN XI’AN

Author: YU Yang

ABSTRACT:The city wall of Xi’an is the largest and most complete ancient city wall in China, and its successful conservation to date after successive waves of demolition in the second half of the 20th century has to be regarded as a miracle, and is one of the few representatives of China with successful experience in the field of heritage conservation. On the basis of reviewing the history of city wall conservation in Xi’an, this paper analyzes in detail the deep-rooted reasons behind the successful implementation of the conservation plan, and considers the gains and losses. It is hoped that by exploring and reflecting on the history, it will shed light on the further development of cultural heritage protection in China.

KEYWORDS: conservation process; plan implementation; city wall of Xi’an; reflections and inspirations