Railway Station District's Reformation And Renewal: View From Urban Redevelopment

Nowadays, China is in a rapidly urbanizing phase: a great amount of rural population and surplus labors moving to cities and towns, 'mega-city' which around metropolitan areas, the periphery between urban and suburban becoming indistinct etc. All of these show that our urban structure are facing an reconstruction's opportunity. And railway transportation is exactly an important sector in urban reconstruction. For this, government has started planning national high speed rail net since 1990s. The stations along the high speed rail would be built or rebuilt for this reason. Local governments which have foresight are ready revive economics by chance of high speed railway's coming. How to combine railway station's construct with redevelopment around this area is this article's subject. Earlier in 1970s, western countries, especial European countries have made great urban redeveloping project in railway station's area. Such cases become more and more usual after over-euro high speed rail net's shaping and Eurodollar's circulation. Those two are main impetus of railway station area's redevelopment, which thought as a method of economics' revival. By studying these redevelopment cases, we can learn about such project's organization, difficulties and solutions, special points etc. These are both strange and useful to us. This article concludes some common features and beneficial experiences by case's introduction and evaluation. There also quote a lot of pictures, tables and data, which could helpful to understanding the concept.