“UN SDG Good Practice” in China: Ecological Restoration of the Zhangjiagang Bay
The ecological restoration project of Zhangjiagang Bay has been recognised as a nine-goal-achieving “UN SDG Good Practice”. This study provides an examination of the dilemma choices, coordination and responses during COVID-19 among competing priorities. Based on theory and evaluation tool of environmental ethics, it also investigates the environmental attitudes of the main stakeholders, which becomes increasingly important for this kind of urban green infrastructure that critically requires long-term cross-sectoral commitment, resources, and actions for sustained effects.
Combining the evolution of urban regeneration with the inherent characteristics of resilient incentives, this book focuses on the core challenges of urban renewal. Through three research perspectives—governmental deregulation, flexible planning that empowers market entities with choices, and “extra-legal” breakthrough practices—the authors provide a detailed analysis of the applicable contexts, mechanistic principles, tools, and constraints of various flexible policies and resilient planning approaches. From the perspective of incentive policies and resilient mechanisms, the research explores the institutional foundations of urban regeneration theory and flexible strategies, as well as the necessary conditions for successful policy transfer.
Publisher: China Architecture & Building Press (2024) Authors: Yunqing Xu, Sheng Zhong (Canada) et al.
(Second Prize, Jiangsu Provincial Social Sciences Applied Research Excellence Programme)
Based on the understanding of Suzhou’s development, the vision of the future city, and the comparison of the development of important international cities, this book brings together a series of research results of domestic and international experts, covering important issues in future urban development, and developing a forward-looking, diverse and possible thinking. In this critical period of China’s urban development, the book explores how Suzhou integrates modern planning and management, design ideas and technical methods to improve and create a leading future city of the future from the perspective of strategy, policy and design.
Publisher: China Architecture & Building Press (2021) Authors: Yunqing Xu and Joon Sik Kim
Food and city: a smarter and greener approach towards urban regeneration – a case of Suzhou Industrial Park, China
This book is a study of smart urban agriculture, which is emerging internationally, with the Suzhou Industrial Park as the carrier in the context of urban regeneration. It includes comprehensive research, assessment, and analysis in terms of policy, market, land, and space. The study proposes a lendable and leading design model as a way to achieve a smart and sustainable lifestyle. The study links the Suzhou Industrial Park from its past (farmland) with its future (technological innovation) and recommends possible actions to the Suzhou Industrial Park government that will potentially create a new model for the transformation and development of industrial parks in China.
2018, Publisher: Academia Press
Authors: Joon Sik Kim, Yunqing Xu, Sheng Zhong, Hyung-Chul Chung, Boliang Li, Cheng Zhang.
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“UN SDG Good Practice” in China: Ecological Restoration of the Zhangjiagang Bay
Incentive Urban Regeneration: International Reflections and Chinese Exploration on Flexible Mechanisms
Publisher: China Architecture & Building Press (2024)
Authors: Yunqing Xu, Sheng Zhong (Canada) et al.
Future Suzhou: urban planning and operation for Suzhou from an international perspective
(Second Prize, Jiangsu Provincial Social Sciences Applied Research Excellence Programme)
Publisher: China Architecture & Building Press (2021)
Authors: Yunqing Xu and Joon Sik Kim
Food and city: a smarter and greener approach towards urban regeneration – a case of Suzhou Industrial Park, China
This book is a study of smart urban agriculture, which is emerging internationally, with the Suzhou Industrial Park as the carrier in the context of urban regeneration. It includes comprehensive research, assessment, and analysis in terms of policy, market, land, and space. The study proposes a lendable and leading design model as a way to achieve a smart and sustainable lifestyle. The study links the Suzhou Industrial Park from its past (farmland) with its future (technological innovation) and recommends possible actions to the Suzhou Industrial Park government that will potentially create a new model for the transformation and development of industrial parks in China.
2018, Publisher: Academia Press
Authors: Joon Sik Kim, Yunqing Xu, Sheng Zhong, Hyung-Chul Chung, Boliang Li, Cheng Zhang.