In the Future,Will There Be Creative Cities in China?

The aim of this paper is to establish the notion of the creative city,show its essential characteristics,and critically evaluate and analyse what elements impact creativity and innovation in cities using real case studies and related literature.Finally,in the essay,the topic of whether or not China will have creative cities in the future is asked,and the feasibility of constructing creative cities in China is discussed,prompting a new way of thinking about China’s future creative city plan.

Urban 8rowth： Chanses, manasement, and problems in larse cities of Southeast China

Compared with medium-sized cities, megacities play an increasingly important role in the rapid urbanization process in China. Owing to the expanding scale of large cities, urban sprawl leads to unsustainable practices that cause ecological, social, and environmental problems. Urban planning and land use planning are major driving forces of land use and land cover change in China. However, the goals of these two types of planning are different, and coordinating them is a challenge for local government decision makers. Thus, we use the SLEUTH model to simulate the implementation scenarios of future urban growth in Nanjing in the Jiangsu province of China. Using the scientific simulation data of the model, we contrasted the alternative futures of the two planning types for local government decision makers to achieve sustainable urban planning. The objective of our study is to explore the problems and possible solutions for urban management in the context of a megacity in China. The results of our study confirm the value of SLEUTH, which provides extensive exploratory knowledge in evaluating the effects of possible local government decisions.

Population Distribution Evolution Characteristics and Shift Growth Analysis in Shiyang River Basin

In recent years, the population size and scale of the Shiyang River Basin unceasingly expanding lead to a series of ecological environment: surface water reducing, land desertification and Ground water levels fall, etc. Research evolution characteristics of population distribution and migration growth of Shiyang River Basin contribute to river water resources and the industrial development of the comprehensive management. The article using the distribution of population structure index, population distribution center of gravity model and the population migration growth analysis model analyzes the distribution of the population evolution characteristics and population migration growth characteristics of Shiyang River Basin in 2000 to 2010. The results show that: 1) Considering Shiyang River Basin, population density is generally low, population distribution difference is bigger and concentration distribution in the middle corridor plain and three big population distribution center of Minqin oasis area, presenting a “point-areas-ribbon” structure characteristics. 2) The population distribution trend of Shiyang River Basin is constantly concentration, but the change is slow;the population distribution of Minqin is in the highest concentration degree, but the trend has been declining. 3) The focus of population density in river basin locates in Liangzhou district of Daliu country;in ten years, it migrates about 1209 m to southwest Wuwei City direction, but migration along the direction things is bigger than the north and south direction. The focus of population density and the basin geometry center is far away. 4) For ten years, at the township for basic statistics unit, each level population migration change within the overall is not significant: township level > prefecture-level cities level > counties level. 5) For ten years, there are significant changes in population migration between watershed township units, Wuwei City and Gulang Town are the two main concentrations of population centers.

Impact of household transitions on domestic energy consumption and its applicability to urban energy planning

The household sector consumes roughly 30% of Earth's energy resources and emits approximately 17% of its carbon dioxide. As such, developing appropriate policies to reduce the CO_2 emissions, which are associated with the world's rapidly growing urban population, is a high priority. This, in turn, will enable the creation of cities that respect the natural environment and the well-being of future generations. However, most of the existing expertise focuses on enhancing the thermal quality of buildings through building physics while few studies address the social and behavioral aspects. In fact, focusing on these aspects should be more prominent, as they cause between 4% and 30% of variation in domestic energy consumption.Premised on that, the aim of this study was to investigate the effect in the context of the UK of household transitions on household energy consumption patterns. To achieve this, we applied statistical procedures(e.g., logistic regression) to official panel survey data comprising more than 5500 households in the UK tracked annually over the course of 18 years. This helped in predicting future transition patterns for different household types for the next 10 to 15 years. Furthermore, it enabled us to study the relationship between the predicted patterns and the household energy usage for both gas and electricity. The findings indicate that the life cycle transitions of a household significantly influence its domestic energy usage. However, this effect is mostly positive in direction and weak in magnitude. Finally, we present our developed urban energy model "Evo Energy" to demonstrate the importance of incorporating such a concept in energy forecasting for effective sustainable energy decision-making.

Collective Forms and Collective Spaces: A Discussion of Urban Design Thinking and Practice Based on Research in Chinese Cities

The paper examines how social projects,social spaces,and social realities define three contexts and shifts critical to understanding urban design in China,which are the transformations from collective forms to community building,from government to governance,and from urban versus rural development to urban-rural integration.The argument presented is that a unique unification of administration,production,and reproduction spaces into one institution,produced collective forms in China,whose collective spaces and collective subjectivities contrast with Western-centric explanations of urban design and urban sociology that depend on abstract notions of the public,public space,community,and place making.Instead,collective forms and collective spaces are defined by concrete activities,interests,and benefits that provide social networks of support and care to clearly identifiable constituencies.The collective and the community in China are thus always legibly spatialized and develop in parallel to a socialized model of governance that derives from a“differential mode of association.”This creates a spatialized governmentality,an instrumentalization of spatial design by government that brings spatial and social problems of governance closely together.A brief discussion of the historical formations of these changing contexts is the basis to outlining an interdisciplinary urban design approach that deals with spatial and social environments,practices,and policies.The paper brings together research conducted in Chinese cities including Wuhan,Beijing,and Shanghai.

Transformation of Urban Planning:Thoughts on Incremental Planning,Stock-Based Planning,and Reduction Planning

According to the current context of China's new urbanization and urban and rural transformation,this paper defines incremental planning,stock-based planning,and reduction planning.It further discusses the socio-economic foundation of incremental planning,the transformation of incremental planning to stock-based planning,and the emergence of reduction planning,as well as the characteristics of these three types of urban planning.Based on that,it finds that incremental planning is determined by China's unique urban growth pattern,and that the change of the urban growth mode leads to a transformation of urban planning.In addition,reduction planning can effectively cope with urban decline.After over 30 years of rapid economic development,more and more cities in China are approaching the bottleneck of growth.Therefore,the transformation of urban planning is unavoidable and will definitely become an important topic in planning circles.

共担与赋能:有温度的社区与住房

Introduction On Apr.15-16,2023,the 2022 Annual Conference of the Housing and Community Planning Committee of the Urban Planning Society of China(UPSC)was successfully held at the Chongqing Planning Exhibition Gallery,Chongqing.The conference was hosted by the Housing and Community Planning Committee of the UPSC.

Community Building and Community Regeneration

Introduction The 2021 Annual Conference of the Housing and Community Planning Committee of the Urban Planning Society of China(UPSC)was successfully held in Beijing on Jun.5,2021.Under the guidance of the UPSC,the conference was hosted by the Housing and Community Planning Committee of the UPSC,and jointly supported by the Beijing Tsinghua Tongheng Urban Planning&Design Institute and the Specialized Committee of Community Building,Science and Technology Committee,Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.