Junjie XI, Xian Jiaotong Liverpool University, China
Yiping DONG, Xian Jiaotong Liverpool University, China
Since 2008, China has achieved the largest HSR network globally. From 2008 to 2019, 989 brand-new stations were built to accommodate high-speed trains. Some HSR stations were used as an urban catalyst to link rail infrastructure and instigate city development and expansion. However, many of these new HSR stations have demonstrated an insufficient capacity to promote healthy urban development in China. In recent years, HSR stations and locations are being revisited and retrofitted to rectify the past mistakes and misgivings of prior hasty bureaucratic decisions. These station renewal programs aim at repairing two shortcomings. To better integrate urban form, station function, and infrastructure for a better integrated territorial economy. Secondly, providing future rail-property income for China Railway to a finite expansion strategy for railway development nationally.
In China's most recent HSR planning and architectural competitions, ambitions are seen with expanded design scopes, extending into station area planning and urban corridors. These agendas aim to weave city fabric and megastructures to mitigate urban and ecological form and function disruption.
This paper investigates through recent winning competition entries and their briefs, aiming to analyze the new strategies in urban integration within the most strategic and essential regions in Shenzhen and Shanghai.
Mots clés : HSR Stations|Transit-Oriented Development|Mega Structures|Rail Property Development|Urban Corridors
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