Chinese city and regional planning systems, Ashgate, Surrey and Burlington

摘要

Chinese City and Regional Planning Systems is a much needed volume to help understand the development and performance of China's regional planning systems. To planning students, scholars and people who are generally interested in public policy, the book provides an overview of the operation of the planning system in the rapidly changing urban landscape of Chinese cities with detailed case studies on the Liaoning Coastal Area, South Fujian region and Xiamen. The book opens up with detailed description on Chinese society, culture, economy and urban challenges which sets the backdrop for planning governance. It then sketches out the development trajectory of planning concepts and the vicissitude of the planning system in modern and contemporary China. Chapter 3 introduces the hierarchical administrative structure of the government in relation to plan making and implementation. The following three chapters then focus on the statutory plans that constitute the planning system: the Integrated Urban System Plan at the regional level, Urban Comprehensive Plan at the municipal level and Regulatory Detailed Plan at the district level to examine their objectives and contents. The non-statutory plan, Urban Development Strategic Plan is investigated as an innovative tool to deal with uncertainty and fast-changing situations in the market economy in Chapter 7. The next chapter explains the administrative mechanism of planning management or development control, and the final chapter employs an evaluation system from planning literature to examine the effectiveness of the Chinese planning system. As a result, a host of problems and challenges is revealed.