How can urban renewal create high-quality development space for Shanghai? China's tallest building collides with sparks of ideas | China
How can urban renewal create high-quality development space for cities while improving people's livelihoods? Recently, the theme forum activity of "urban renewal - creating high-quality development space" was held in Shanghai center Building, the highest building in China, and government, experts, scholars and enterprise representatives from relevant fields of urban renewal have made suggestions.
With the opening of public spaces on both sides of the "One River, One River", areas along the Xuhui Binjiang, Yangpu Binjiang, and Hongkou North Bund have vacated their cages and replaced birds, giving the urban space a new look. Nowadays, not only are there citizens and tourists coming to rest and play, but also a large number of leading enterprises have settled in, driving the development of surrounding areas. Through regional urban renewal, a 480 meter tall building will rise from the north Bund and become the tallest building in Puxi in the future.
New functional nodes have emerged on both sides of the Pujiang River. How can the "old development zones" located along the same route handle themselves? "We feel very stressed." Xiao Jian, director of the Lujiazui Administration Bureau, said frankly that many people have the impression that Lujiazui Financial City is a high-rise area along the river represented by the "three pieces" of Shanghai center Building, Jinmao Building and the Global Financial Center, covering an area of 1.7 square kilometers. In fact, its coverage is wider, covering an area of 31.78 square kilometers, including 5 streets. There are a total of 285 buildings here, more than half of which are Grade A office buildings, including residential communities and other types of buildings.
The Lujiazui Financial City is one of the earlier developed areas along the Pujiang River, and naturally faces higher renewal requirements, namely to build an international first-class financial city, strengthen the three advantages of the highest level of internationalization, the most complete ecological functions, and the best business services. "According to the overall spatial planning of Lujiazui, we will increase the commercial area by 2.5 million square meters in the next 2 to 3 years through sporadic land development and construction, core functions of old residential areas, and updates of old buildings, continuously improving functions, expanding space, optimizing quality, and achieving the effect of industry city integration." Xiao Jian said.
In recent years, enterprises represented by Shanghai Urban Investment have actively participated in urban renewal, and have made efforts to create many benchmark projects, covering historical and cultural protection areas, industrial land conversion, TOD concept site updates, industrial transformation and upgrading, and smart industry platforms. For example, the comprehensive transportation renovation of the Bund area has recreated the Bund's style and reshaped its functions.
"Urban Investment Group will continue to grasp the directional and holistic issues of urban renewal, correctly handle the relationship between micro and macro, current and long-term, actively respond to the six major actions of Shanghai's urban renewal, explore and practice more sustainable and high-quality urban renewal models, and continuously provide urban investment plans and contribute to the improvement of Shanghai's urban stock, function improvement, layout optimization, and public services," said Jiang Shujie, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Shanghai Urban Investment Group.
How to ensure the quality of the updated space? "We can not take the traditional road of high-turnover real estate development, we need to adhere to long-term doctrine." Zhang Chen, deputy secretary of the party committee and president of Shanghai City Investment Holdings Co., Ltd., said that taking the old renovation project Luxiang Garden as an example, Shanghai City Investment used at least 20 years to "grow" the incense Garden in the historical area of the old city. Division, inheritance, construction and addition are used to solve the three balance problems of history and present, inheritance and utilization, preservation and new construction. Today, the Luxiangyuan project has become a classic case of the transformation of excellent historical and cultural old areas on behalf of Shanghai. The former nine mu of land has been rejuvenated and has become a new beautiful scenic line in Shanghai.
First tier cities, represented by Shanghai, started early in urban renewal work. Nowadays, urban renewal tasks are large and wide-ranging, and it is obvious that they cannot fully rely on government financial investment. Instead, more social capital and market entities need to participate.
Zhang Ming, the Director of the Landscape Department of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at Tongji University and the Chief Architect of Tongji Design Institute, led the renovation of Nanshi Power Plant and Yangpu Riverside as a designer. In his view, it is not just a matter of "one river, one river", but also a large number of industrial relics in the central urban area of Shanghai that urgently need to be updated. Although urban renewal policies have been continuously optimized in recent years to safeguard the reuse of industrial relics, it is necessary to mobilize greater enthusiasm from market entities, and more standardized innovation, research, and formulation of more matching policy mechanisms are needed.
