A Close Look at the Urban Planning and Development in Asia——A Review on Asian Cities: Planning and Development

正Asian Cities:Planning and Development Editors:Wu Jiang, Zhang Fan, Sha Yongjie, Xia Liping Year:2018 Publisher:Tongji University Press ISBN:9787560875774 1. Publishing background The Asian Cities:Planning and Development edited by Prof. Wu     

Legislation of Urban Planning Public Policy from the Perspective of Legal Boundary: Enlightenment from the Evolution of Planning Laws

The transition of urban-rural planning to public policy has become a common recognition in the planning fi eld. The new challenge is how to combine such a transition with legislation development. This paper reviews the disciplinary development and legislation of urban-rural planning, and analyzes the effects of the public policy transition on law implementation and administrative power from the perspective of the legal boundary. It points out that the defi nition of the legal boundary of urban-rural planning laws is signifi cant for identifying the impact of public policy, ensuring the implementation of regulations on administrative power, and scoping effective urban-rural spaces. It argues that the core of public policy legalization is to establish value judgments for public policy making, to specify authorization and restraint to administrative power, and to reduce confl icts between public policies and governments’ administrative actions in urban-rural spaces. Furthermore, this paper discusses some other relevant issues on how to complete the public policy legalization.     

Reflections on China's Institutional Reform on Urban Planning Decision-making:A Case Study on Shenzhen Urban Planning Committee

With the establishment of a market economy, the deepening of market-oriented reforms, and an increased awareness of rights protection, the role of government as sole investor and manager of urban construction projects     

Study on Spatial-Temporal Evolution of Residential Differentiation in Shanghai from an Employee Perspective

Against a background of deepened globalization, the socio-spatial distribution characteristics of the employed population are one of the important perspectives that reflect the impact of globalization on urban social space. Based on data of the population census of Shanghai in 2000 and 2010, using location quotient and index of dissimilarity, this paper analyzes the residential differentiation evolution in Shanghai from 2000 to 2010. The results show that except the high-end service industry, the residential differentiation of the employees in the other three types of industries has intensified but is not serious. In addition, the proportion of employees in high-end service industry within the Middle Ring has increased, while that of employees in the middle-and low-end service industry beyond the Middle Ring has increased, which further proves that globalization has an increasingly obvious impact on the socio-spatial differentiation in Shanghai. However, the adjustment in spatial development made by the Shanghai municipal government in response to globalization makes the socio-spatial evolution of Shanghai greatly different from the suburbanization of social elites in the West.     

The Discipline of Urban and Rural Planning in China: History and Prospect

Based on a review on the social and cultural basis and the formation and evolution process of the urban-rural planning discipline in China, this paper summarizes the features of disciplinary development from the perspectives of development driving force, expression manner, knowledge characteristics and systemized development, etc. Then, aiming at the problems in the development of this discipline, the paper points out the direction for the future development. It emphasizes that, developing as an applied discipline, the urban-rural planning discipline should strengthen the production of its own disciplinary knowledge based on the comprehensive use of various relevant disciplinary knowledge, and proposes corresponding paths, means, and basic issues of knowledge production. The paper also points out that the output of the knowledge and achievements of China's urban-rural planning discipline to other disciplines and other countries is an important foundation for the further development of this discipline.     

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

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.     

The 6th International Association for China Planning （IACP） Conference Held in School of Urban Design,Wuhan University

On Jun.19,the three-day 6 th International Association for China Planning (IACP) Conference successfully completed all meeting agendas and came to the end in the School of Urban Design,Wuhan University.Mr.GENG Hongbing,Deputy Secretary-General of UPSC delivered the keynote speech on the closing ceremony.This conference was co-hosted by IACP,Wuhan University,Land Resources and Urban Planning Bureau of Wuhan,and UPSC.Surrounding the theme of "China’s     

Municipal Services in Guangzhou at Beginning of Republican Period

The city today: governments, parks, hos-pitals, elementary and middle schools, pavement, running water, fire hydrants, street lamps, telephone booths… These miscellaneous elements emerged in the     

Ten Years'Progress of Administration Work for Registered Urban Planners

The urban planner qualification system of China was established in the year of 2000.After ten years’ progress,a team of 15,000 registered urban planners has been set up,which has become the backbone of China’s urban planning industry and has played an important role.The enhancement of the administration of registered urban planners is needed for standardizing urban planning education,accelerating the fostering of planning professionals,and keeping pace with the market economy system and the urban-rural planning in the new era.Meanwhile,it is also an important task for China’s urban planning industry to open up to the outside world and catch up with international standards.     

Glossary

<正>Editor’s Note:Today,as the world is in the transition from an industrial civilization to an ecological civilization,we need to accordingly update our knowledge and concepts on socio-economic development,following the principles