Paper present to the International Seminar “Urban mobility: the stakes, the research problems in
China and abroad”, October 9-11, 2004, Tsinghua University/Institut pour la ville en mouvement
Urban spatial development and transport organization in China’s...
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Paper present to the International Seminar “Urban mobility: the stakes, the research problems in
China and abroad”, October 9-11, 2004, Tsinghua University/Institut pour la ville en mouvement
Urban spatial development and transport organization in China’s metropolitan
regions: from “big pancake sprawl” to sustainable development
Professor Mao Qizhi, School of architecture, Tsinghua University
Abstract
China is going to a period of both urbanization and motorization high-speed development, and in
which the most rapid developing metropolitan regions are Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta,
and Greater Beijing Region.
These region’s urban spatial patterns are developed by central city
proper “big pancake sprawl” in last decades, and now have gone into a new stage of high densely
centralized construction area combined with suburbanized diffusive sprawl side-by-side.
Thinking
for sustainable development, the metropolitan region’s transport organization has to find even
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