Beijing, once a city of fortresses, walls, and bicycles, is now a city of fortresses, walls - and automobiles. At ULI’s inaugural Asia Pacific Summit on shaping sustainable urban growth, held in the Chinese capital, planner Peter Calthorpe urged land use professionals in Asia to be sensitive to the effects of the giant-scale developments common in the region and to how massive through-city highways wall off residents.
"The environment here is single uses at very large scale," said Calthorpe, who won ULI’s J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development in 2006. Over the past 30 years, the city has been dominated by superblocks with as much as 1,640 feet between intersections, a planning model that isolates people and frustrates pedestrians, he said.
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Why China Needs More Human-Scale Development
Beijing, once a city of fortresses, walls, and bicycles, is now a city of fortresses, walls - and automobiles. At ULI’s inaugural Asia Pacific Summit on shaping sustainable urban growth, held in the Chinese capital, planner Peter Calthorpe urged land use professionals in Asia to be sensitive to the effects of the giant-scale developments common in the region and to how massive through-city highways wall off residents.
"The environment here is single uses at very large scale," said Calthorpe, who won ULI’s J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development in 2006. Over the past 30 years, the city has been dominated by superblocks with as much as 1,640 feet between intersections, a planning model that isolates people and frustrates pedestrians, he said.
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