Eco And Low Carbon New Towns In China

Author : Yang Fu,Xiaoling Zhang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000300024

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Eco and Low-Carbon New Towns in China by Yang Fu,Xiaoling Zhang Pdf

This book examines the sustainability transition theory in the context of urbanization in China, tracing the development of eco and low-carbon cities. It examines how ideas on building eco-cities and low-carbon cities travel from nation to nation, how they are adopted in the Chinese administrative context and what role inter-scalar actors play in getting the ideas transferred, translated and operationalized on the ground. Offering an overarching theoretical framework that incorporates all urban sustainability experiments in China, the book conducts a comprehensive analysis of the master plans of these new towns and summarizes the normative transition targets of sustainable urban experiments. It explores how they differ from each other and how they influence transition dynamics in practice. By examining four eco and low-carbon new towns deemed representative of current major approaches to sustainability transition management in China, the book provides a detailed depiction of generic transition management and explains the different transitional trajectories for each type of sustainable urban experiment. It demonstrates how subnational-level and city-level transitions mediate the national transition. Through a thorough inquiry into inter-scalar dynamics, institutional arrangements and techno-social innovations in sustainable urban experiments, the book links generalized transition rules and specific contexts to present a full view of the challenges, failures and territorial problems of eco and low-carbon new towns. This book makes a novel contribution to the study of Chinese urbanization by revisiting issues and problems of contemporary urban China. The reflection on these urban issues will provide implications to policymakers, professionals and the common reader interested in the future sustainable urbanism in China.

Author : Sun Sheng Han,Ray Green,Mark Wang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317802402

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Towards Low Carbon Cities in China by Sun Sheng Han,Ray Green,Mark Wang Pdf

This book explores the relationship between urban form and greenhouse gas emissions in China, providing new insights for policy, urban planning and management. Drawing on the results of a four-year multidisciplinary research project, the book examines how factors such as urban households’ access to services and jobs, land use mixes and provision of public transport impact on greenhouse gas emissions. The authors analyse data from a wide range of sources including 4677 sample households from four major Chinese cities – Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan and Xi’an – with diverse locations, urban spatial structures and population sizes. The book explores residents’ attitudes to reducing GHG emissions and advances knowledge relating to three environmental scales – cross-metropolitan, intra-city and neighbourhood level. It also contributes to debates on low carbon policy by revealing the relevance of urban planning parameters at both the macro and micro levels. The book will be of interest to scholars in the areas of urban planning, urban management, environmental sustainability and resource utilisation, as well as urban policy makers and planners who are working toward developing low carbon, sustainable cities of the future.

Author : Yang Fu,Xiaoling Zhang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000300123

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Eco and Low-Carbon New Towns in China by Yang Fu,Xiaoling Zhang Pdf

This book examines the sustainability transition theory in the context of urbanization in China, tracing the development of eco and low-carbon cities. It examines how ideas on building eco-cities and low-carbon cities travel from nation to nation, how they are adopted in the Chinese administrative context and what role inter-scalar actors play in getting the ideas transferred, translated and operationalized on the ground. Offering an overarching theoretical framework that incorporates all urban sustainability experiments in China, the book conducts a comprehensive analysis of the master plans of these new towns and summarizes the normative transition targets of sustainable urban experiments. It explores how they differ from each other and how they influence transition dynamics in practice. By examining four eco and low-carbon new towns deemed representative of current major approaches to sustainability transition management in China, the book provides a detailed depiction of generic transition management and explains the different transitional trajectories for each type of sustainable urban experiment. It demonstrates how subnational-level and city-level transitions mediate the national transition. Through a thorough inquiry into inter-scalar dynamics, institutional arrangements and techno-social innovations in sustainable urban experiments, the book links generalized transition rules and specific contexts to present a full view of the challenges, failures and territorial problems of eco and low-carbon new towns. This book makes a novel contribution to the study of Chinese urbanization by revisiting issues and problems of contemporary urban China. The reflection on these urban issues will provide implications to policymakers, professionals and the common reader interested in the future sustainable urbanism in China.

Author : Axel Baeumler,Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez,Shomik Mehndiratta
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821389881

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Sustainable Low-Carbon City Development in China by Axel Baeumler,Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez,Shomik Mehndiratta Pdf

This book summarizes experiences from the World Bank s activities related to low-carbon urban development in China. It highlights the need for low-carbon city development and presents details on specific sector-level experiences and lessons, a framework for action, and financing opportunities.

Author : Songlin Feng,Weiguang Huang,Jun Wang,Mingquan Wang,Jun Zha
Publisher : Springer
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783662459690

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Low-carbon City and New-type Urbanization by Songlin Feng,Weiguang Huang,Jun Wang,Mingquan Wang,Jun Zha Pdf

In the face of increasingly serious resource and environmental challenges, the world has already accepted low-carbon development as the main way forward for future city construction. Chinese cities have encountered many problems during their development, including land constraints, energy shortages, traffic congestion and air pollution. For this reason, the national meeting of the Central Work Conference on Urbanization made the strategic decision to take a new approach to urbanization and indicated that in future the key features of urbanization in China will be low-carbon development and harmony between the environment and resources. This book discusses the "low-carbon city" as the new pattern of Chinese urbanization. This represents a major change and takes "intensive land use,” “intelligent,” “green” and “low carbon" as its key words. Low carbon will become an important future development direction for Chinese urbanization development. In the twenty-first Century in response to the global climate change, countries have started a wave of low-carbon city construction. But in China, there are still many disputes and misunderstandings surrounding the issue. Due to a lack of research, low-carbon city construction in China is still in the early stages, and while there have been successes, there have also been failures. There are complex and diverse challenges in applying low-carbon development methods in the context of today’s Chinese cities. The construction of low-carbon cities requires efficient government, the technological innovation of enterprises, and professional scholars, but also efforts on the part of the public to change their daily activities. Based on the above considerations, the collection brings together experts from urban planning and design, clean-energy systems, low-carbon transportation, new types of city infrastructure and smart cities etc., in the hope of forming some solutions for Chinese low-carbon city development.

Author : Xuefeng Li,Xuke Liu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811307799

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Green Development Model of China’s Small and Medium-sized Cities by Xuefeng Li,Xuke Liu Pdf

The book discusses how to establish a land-use system for small and medium-sized cities in order to promote low carbon economic development and to ensure sustainable development. It also presents the objectives and requirements of urban green development: The first objective is to establish a green city with ecological harmony. The second is the establishment of a people-oriented harmonious city, which is important for the green development of city. Drawing on past experience and combining this with the current situation in China’s cities, it argues that the construction of people-oriented harmonious cities should be a priority. The third objective is to build multi-functional organic cities in which the urban function is relatively independent. Lastly, the fourth objective is to establish a city with unique charm, applying historical ways of thinking to today’s world.

Author : Jingyuan Li,Tongjin Yang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783662481530

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China's Eco-city Construction by Jingyuan Li,Tongjin Yang Pdf

This book introduces the concept of Eco-civilization, highlights the construction and development of eco-cities in China, and assesses the achievements and shortcomings of China’s eco-city construction projects. As both China and Western countries face an impending ecological crisis, responding to that crisis is a common challenge for all human beings. There is an overwhelming consensus among Chinese scholars that in order to successfully address the ecological crisis successfully we must establish an eco-civilization, and one important step toward accomplishing that goal is to plan and construct eco-cities.

Author : Weiguang Huang,Mingquan Wang,Jun WANG,Kun GAO,Song LI,Chen Liu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783662490716

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China Low-Carbon Healthy City, Technology Assessment and Practice by Weiguang Huang,Mingquan Wang,Jun WANG,Kun GAO,Song LI,Chen Liu Pdf

This book is based on multidisciplinary research focusing on low-carbon healthy city planning, policy and assessment. This includes city-development strategy, energy, environment, healthy, land-use, transportation, infrastructure, information and other related subjects. This book begins with the current status and problems of low-carbon healthy city development in China. It then introduces the global experience of different regions and different policy trends, focusing on individual cases. Finally, the book opens a discussion of Chinese low-carbon healthy city development from planning and design, infrastructure and technology assessment-system perspectives. It presents a case study including the theory and methodology to support the unit city theory for low-carbon healthy cities. The book lists the ranking of China’s 269 high-level cities, with economic, environmental, resource, construction, transportation and health indexes as an assessment for creating a low-carbon healthy future. The book provides readers with a comprehensive overview of building low-carbon healthy cities in China.

Author : Austin Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781350003231

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China’s Urban Revolution by Austin Williams Pdf

By 2025, China will have built fifteen new 'supercities' each with 25 million inhabitants. It will have created 250 'Eco-cities' as well: clean, green, car-free, people-friendly, high-tech urban centres. From the edge of an impending eco-catastrophe, we are arguably witnessing history's greatest environmental turnaround - an urban experiment that may provide valuable lessons for cities worldwide. Whether or not we choose to believe the hype – there is little doubt that this is an experiment that needs unpicking, understanding, and learning from. Austin Williams, The Architectural Review's China correspondent, explores the progress and perils of China's vast eco-city program, describing the complexities which emerge in the race to balance the environment with industrialisation, quality with quantity, and the liberty of the individual with the authority of the Chinese state. Lifting the lid on the economic and social realities of the Chinese blueprint for eco-modernisation, Williams tells the story of China's rise, and reveals the pragmatic, political and economic motives that lurk behind the successes and failures of its eco-cities. Will these new kinds of urban developments be good, humane, healthy places? Can China find a 'third way' in which humanity, nature, economic growth and sustainability are reconciled? And what lessons can we learn for our own vision of the urban future? This is a timely and readable account which explores a range of themes – environmental, political, cultural and architectural – to show how the eco-city program sheds fascinating light on contemporary Chinese society, and provides a lens through which to view the politics of sustainability closer to home.

Author : Axel Baeumler,Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez,Shomik Mehndiratta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Carbon dioxide mitigation
ISBN : 661349190X

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Sustainable Low-carbon City Development in China by Axel Baeumler,Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez,Shomik Mehndiratta Pdf

Author : Wu Deng,Ali Cheshmehzangi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811083457

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Eco-development in China by Wu Deng,Ali Cheshmehzangi Pdf

This book explores China’s eco-development strategies and practices from a multi-scalar perspective, discussing the importance of interplay between multi spatial levels of the built environment, as well as the stakeholders who are key players for China’s eco-development. Based on a selection of eco-development Chinese case studies - eco-city, eco-community and eco-building - it highlights how specific eco initiatives and green features are applied and practiced, offering a guide to China’s strategy directions and design and planning trends. The book identifies gaps and strategies and solutions for future eco-development expected to take place in China in the coming decades, as well as useful references for eco-development in other countries, and provides a useful resource for studies in the fields of urbanism, sustainable development and eco-design.

Author : Ali Cheshmehzangi,Ayotunde Dawodu,Ayyoob Sharifi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000410488

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Sustainable Urbanism in China by Ali Cheshmehzangi,Ayotunde Dawodu,Ayyoob Sharifi Pdf

Sustainable Urbanism in China explores the notion of "Sustainable Urbanism" by considering the role sustainable neighborhood planning plays in the larger picture of sustainable urbanism and suggests innovations and best practices that are either developed or adopted by China. These are narrated as lessons learnt for other countries where we see similar trends of development patterns or emerging practices. Through various explorations of challenges, paradigms, and innovations of urban sustainability, this book highlights how planning, policy, and design are forming and reforming in the context of China. These are offered through a set of guidelines and pathways for urban sustainability at the scale of neighborhoods/communities or districts in a wider context of urban environments, as well as strategies for planners, developers, policy makers, and educators in the field of the built environment. Through a comprehensive overview of urban sustainability practices in China, this book investigates 12 case study projects. These comprehensive explorations should in turn help construct the future directions of China’s sustainable urban development and provide innovative pathways of sustainable urbanism in China and around the globe.

Author : Xiaoling Zhang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811333507

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Remaking Sustainable Urbanism by Xiaoling Zhang Pdf

This book analyses the implications of eco-urbanism re-making for policy and practice under the transformational trends of economic decentralization and market reform in China. While the guiding themes are space, scale, and governance of cities, the book focuses on three interrelated prevailing processes of local green space reproduction, cross-scale mediation of eco-city planning ideology and mobilized social-economic-political intricacies among different countries. This book addresses the ongoing global diffusion and diversification of sustainable urbanism discourses, debates and practices to portray, evaluate, remake and implement a sustainable form of urban development, using China as a national example. As eco-city practice becomes a city-branding instrument worldwide, this new urban development vision is also well embraced by Chinese local governments. In these contexts, the Chinese government has initiated and endorsed a number of massive projects to promote green urbanism, steering urbanization onto a more sustainable trajectory. The construction of these “ecotopias” involves a multitude of processes ranging from policy transfer/mobility to institutional design, from innovation in green technologies to the promotion of green buildings, and from policy implementation to public participation.

Author : Jiahua Pan,Wang Hanqing,Liang Benfan,Zhou Yueyun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Development economics
ISBN : 1844644065

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Smart Low-carbon Development of Cities in China by Jiahua Pan,Wang Hanqing,Liang Benfan,Zhou Yueyun Pdf

In China, as the 'Internet of Things' and cloud-computing have been widely used in various areas, the concept of an intelligent city quickly became one of the most exciting topics in urban development. Various institutes and organizations (e.g., National Technology Department, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences) proposed their ideas on how to build intelligent cities in China. This idea has tremendous benefits to modern China. China needs to construct its own intelligent cities in order to realize an economic transformation (from extensive to intensive, from low end to high end, and from follower to leader), an industry upgrade, as well as transformation in city development. Secondly, an intelligent city is also an important new approach to boost China's economy since the traditional economic forms-such as real estate, automobiles, and import and export-are currently in a downtrend. Most importantly, utilizing high-tech methods can help build low-carbon cities. According to estimates, by building intelligent cities China will be able to increase the efficiency of energy saving and emission reduction by 30%-40%. In order to facilitate the healthy development of intelligent cities in China, build the competitive advantage of Chinese cities in the world, and respond to the high demand for information on this idea, this book discusses in detail the status, current problems, perspectives and methods of the development of the 'Intelligent City' in China. [Subject: Asian Studies, Environmental Studies]

Author : Fangzhu Zhang,Fulong Wu
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781803922041

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Handbook on China’s Urban Environmental Governance by Fangzhu Zhang,Fulong Wu Pdf

This Handbook addresses how Chinese cities govern environmental changes generated by fast economic growth and urbanisation. With in-depth case studies on governing waste management, climate change, and energy transition, it will illuminate the relationship between the state, market, and society in environmental governance.