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China's Railway Transformation - History, Culture Changes and Urban Development (Hardcover)
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China's Railway Transformation - History, Culture Changes and Urban Development (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
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This book investigates China's railway transformation through
history, along with culture changes and urban development. The book
begins by looking at the background of China and the history and
growth of railway development in China through five key phases,
followed by assessing the cultural changes in the railway carriage
and exploring how these are linked to social equality and national
provisions. The core of this book aims to analyse the Chinese urban
transformation through the development of the high-speed rail (HSR)
infrastructure in China. Eleven important new HSR stations in
mainland China, plus the new Hong Kong West Kowloon Station, have
been selected to contextually explore how HSR infrastructures have
affected the development of the Chinese urban context. The selected
case studies are the stations of Beijing South, Wuhan, Shanghai
Hongqiao, Guangzhou South, Xi'an North, Nanjing South, Chengdu
East, Tianjin West, Zhengzhou East, Hangzhou East and Hong Kong
West Kowloon. All of these were built between 2008 and 2018. In
these case studies, the location and the intentions and success of
promoting urban development are analysed and assessed. Following
this, the book further investigates the peculiarities of the new
HSR stations in China in comparison with stations in Europe. An
assessment framework is established to evaluate the Chinese case
studies comparatively with significant cases in Europe, attending
to the urban structure of the area, the architectural quality, the
functional diversity and the quality of the public space generated
in the surrounding area.
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