Study On The Locations Of Business Office Districts In Downtown Shanghai

This thesis takes the downtown of Shanghai City as its research field and carries out a positive study of the locations of Business Office Districts in downtown Shanghai based upon the real locations of the city.The whole paper is composed of five chapters. The first chapter introduces the notion of Business Office District and the related ideas, illustrates the significance and methodology of the present research, and recapitulates the status quo of the field of study both home and abroad.Chapter two centers on the analysis of the status quo of the locations of Business Office District in downtown Shanghai. Through the analysis this chapter reveals that in downtown Shanghai now appear in its formative stage several Business Office Districts of various sizes in hierarchy. These Business Office Districts scatter around the CBD, with the Development District featuring Specialty Business Office Districts and small-sized Business Office Districts around the exterior of Downtown Shanghai.The third chapter focuses on the mechanism of formation of the present Business Office Districts in Downtown Shanghai from the viewpoint of the locations of the Business Office Districts in question. This paper argues that the important location elements in the formation of the present Business Office Districts include the level of the general economic development of the city, government policies, social-cultural factors, communications and transportations, and city environment. Moreover, this chapter further analyses the different functions and effects each of these elements play upon the final formation of the Business Office Districts and their possible influence upon the formative mechanism of the Business Office Districts.Chapter four discusses the problems of the present Business Office Districts in downtown Shanghai and predicts the future development of the Business Office Districts in Shanghai. The major problems Shanghai is now faced with lie in the following aspect: first, the total number of business buildings is not good enough, especially the top business buildings; second, there is an imbalance of structural supply-demand concerning these business buildings; third, infrastructures and environment development lag far behind the business development; lastly, the mixed use of buildings as offices and apartments is very striking. According to the general situations of Shanghai economy, I believe that the centripetal force of the construction of Business Office Districts will gain momentum, that there will be a sharp demand of top business buildings in top Business Office Districts, that the different requirements of office spaces in CBD will become evermore apparent.The last chapter offers several way-outs for the development of Business Office Districts in Shanghai, based upon the above analysis. This paper suggests that the municipal government should make a good and careful overall design for the formation of the Business Office Districts, further strengthen the acro-control of the construction of both the Business Office Districts and its related environment, and determine the priority of the development of Business Office Districts in Shanghai.