2. Urban planning system
Start time
Something related to site planning
3. United State:
Federal government has indirect
role on land use planning and does
not have a central planning law
State government has power to
plan and regulate
Citizens are encouraged to take
part in meetings
China:
•The Chinese central government
and the legislative body play a
critical role on planning and
regulating
•Citizens are not able to participate
to discuss
4. United State
Has been planned for more than
one hundred since creation of
New York’s Central Park
China
•Begin to plan in recent year
•Be independent department in
1980s and a sub-filed of
Architecture
5. Nine Types of Residential Houses
Courtyard houses of North China Jiang Nan Residential houses
Kaiping Diaolou Earth Towers of Hakkas
6. Gave Dwelling of Northwest China Tibetan Vernacular Dwelling
The Ganlan Wood Monglian Yurts Ayiwang Uyghur Houses
11. Because of topographic
reason, over 50% of total
people live and work in the
urban centers, for
convenience and efficiency.
12. The vertical city
“The vertical city image of Hong Kong is portrayed by thousands of two
hundred meters tall towers of residential apartment, or offices of similar
heights”
The UN Statistics Year Book of 2000 indicated the vertical city of Hong
Kong is one of the most energy efficient built form
13. The sky city
Activities do not happen on the ground rather than above the ground.
For example, a large variety of double layered web-like network of
pedestrian’s crosswalk.
14.
15. Similar to Hong Kong, high rise and high density housing accommodate
people.
More than half of population is not local residents rather than
commuting workers, visitors, hospital users and commuting students.
16. How these commuting workers arrive in Manhattan
Because of extensive transportation and mass transit network
17. Although Chinese urban planning is different with American urban planning,
the aim of both is to make great communities happen.
