Abstract Although professional planning in China is relatively new, Chinese urban has roots governance practices that predate both Mao and the current era of market-oriented reform. Government social responses to unprecedented contradictions caused by reforms suggest some likely future directions for China. I expect discipline will diversify from emphasis on enabling economic growth include a stronger regulatory function, greater maintaining environmental quality, analytical, communicative,...

Problem, research strategy, and findings: Conventional hazard mitigation pre-disaster recovery planning processes typically begin with scenarios that illustrate probable events analyze their impacts on the built environment. The conclude responses to hypothetical disruption focus “hardening” buildings or structures removing them from threatened areas. These approaches understate importance of natural social sources adaptive capacity. Three “proof-of-principle” exercises designed strengthen...

One of the more recent movements in China’s policy for periurban planning and development is pursuit “town country integration” (cheng xiang yi ti hua). The officially reframed approach to suggests possibilities official reconsideration developmental practice, but entrenched conditions governance, land, environmental policy, profession itself constrain these possibilities. Perhaps no other context China illustrates constraints dramatically than reconstruction effort underway Sichuan...

Chinese cities today represent a historically important case of the relation between city-scale preservation policy and urban design, role they play in rapid transformation environments. This article reviews Beijing's design policies as existed 1990, evolved responded over following fifteen years radical change. master plan 1990s ambitiously attempted to define preservation-worthy image entire old city, but did so narrowly picturesque terms. The practice 'protecting' designated historic...

The Dujiangyan irrigation system, China’s largest, is one of the world’s most important examples sustainable agropolitan development, maintained by a relatively decentralised system governance that minimises bureaucratic oversight and depends on significant local autonomy at many scales down to household. At its historic core in Chengdu Plain, has supported over 2000 years near-continuously stable urban culture, as well some highest sustained long-term per-hectare productivity diversity...

This article reviews the dynamics and achievements of a ten-year series collaborative planning studios field research between faculty students from urban design programs in Canadian Chinese universities, with additional perspective gained by observations other collaborations. Focusing on pedagogical cross-cultural communicative aspects experience, suggests some key features successful international educational collaborations assesses special role that physical can play facilitating...

This paper discusses China's current phase of large-scale urban redevelopment, using contrasting cases morphological change and street design to examine the political-economic basis design. The typical, superblock-centred approach is an outgrowth local land use practices that were shaped by widespread collectivist expropriation property from 1950s into 1970s, drastic resident relocation policies since early 1990s. A case, a city where such levels did not occur, reveals very different, more...

Coastal regions around the Pacific Ring of Fire share risk massive earthquakes and tsunamis. Along with their own political-economic, cultural biophysical contexts, each region has history experiences tsunami disasters. areas Washington State in U.S. are currently at experiencing a following Magnitude 9 (M9) earthquake anticipated Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ). Looking ahead to consider adaptive planning advance this M9 event, paper explores how lessons from recent megaquake-...

Among the many revivals of older urban practices in China since death Mao and Reforms Deng Xiaoping is resurgence unofficial folk-religious space. As a national phenomenon, it an uneven process, but where has become prevalent, presents challenges both to official standard urban-planning practice, as well public presentation planning practice. This paper describes how nonstandard can emerge current context rapid urbanization, which itself force for standardized spatial terms Chinese domestic...

Among the societies that are moving from a centrally planned economy with weak property rights towards market-oriented stronger and more privatised rights, China is undergoing an especially rapid extensive urbanisation obscures diversity relevance of local pre-Reform arrangements. Official discourse emphasises formalisation, clarification and, to some extent, privatisation in name overall societal development gradual integration global economy. In informal, popular practice discourse,...

The Chengdu Plain is an agroecosystem that depends on the Dujiangyan (Capital River Weir) for its functioning. This system has been sustained at high levels of productivity more than two thousand years, experiencing only a few disturbances have disrupted Integrating field and documentary research ecological, market, governance factors, this article discusses remarkable resilience from late Qing to present identifies current threats resilience. When ecology consists patchy diverse landscapes,...

When large-scale disasters occur, people often are left on their own to seek critical resources: food, water, medications, and other important items. Historically, government agencies have developed disaster preparedness strategies focused primarily either the level of individual or household ability agents provide relief affected areas. Such approaches do not consider potential for community members share needed resources with one another—a crucial factor in survival when earthquakes,...

This chapter first focuses on the premises of urban planning in China and the contradictions inherent practice as it has evolved uniquely current era market-oriented reforms. The then examines two concerns that are fundamental considerations for all market-based systems, but which current Chinese is not very cognizant: community property. These nevertheless push to evolve dialectically. The chapter organized around standard dialectical categories thesis, which outlines chief functions...

Solutions for a Modern City: Arup in Beijing Black Dog, London, UK, 2008; ISBN 978 1 906155 47 6 has series of questions embedded its title. Soluti...

In this study, we echo the call from UN to interpret Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in their regional context—in case, linpan (wooded lot) landscape of Chengdu Plain, Sichuan, China, where shocks and stresses recent, rapid administrative-economic urbanization are testing resilience some world's most sustainably productive long- densely-settled agrarian environments. recent years, fine-grained information communications technology (ICT) governance tools Chengdu, such as “grid...

When disasters isolate communities from external support, their members must turn to each other for mutual assistance. This study explores (1) resource management, (2) information sharing, and (3) community leadership civic participation as dimensions of peer-to-peer sharing more efficient distribution local resources under "islanded" conditions. Interviews with leaders three neighborhood-scale in Washington state revealed concerns about household preparedness stockpiling resources, but also...

In the course of China’s rapid environmental change, rebuilding city centers has left few historic urban spaces and structures to conserve, while urbanization countryside brought increasing numbers small towns villages onto conservation lists. The collective governmental "eye" now sees an environment that was formerly invisible it, brings it into orbit its metropolitan concerns. On one hand, municipal leaders seek room for city’s expanding functions; on other officials (and public discourse...