Quality-oriented urban development pattern? – Case studies in ...

Dr.-Ing. Yi, Xin Southeast University
School of Architecture
Sipailou 2#, Nanjing
xinyi.tum@gmail.com 210096 P.R. CHINA
Fig. 06 Pedestrian system in walkable urban spcae
4.4 Integration into existing institutional frameworks
Except for the efforts in deign to create attractive urban space and to utilize Low Carbon technologies,
one of most important work concentrated in solving confliction between design concepts with
integration into existing institutional framework for urban planning practice.
Since Chinese land use pattern has still a strong character of functional division. The idea for mixed
use cannot directly find corresponding support in the prescription from existing land use regulations.
The cultivation of public space and continuity of pedestrian system require strong control effort from
city government. However, such requirements have not yet got enough attentions on the institutional
level for the cultivation of urban space quality.
In this special case, the importance of this strategic project helped to overcome such difficulties. City
government has accepted to take this project as special case and even allowed the foreign office to
take part in the following legal planning establishment, in which the affairs of later is normally carried
out within public sectors. With the support of decision maker, the foreign planning office has then
assumed the guideline establishment for and participated into legal planning establishment.
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