Abstract
Speakers: Yongdong QIU, Wuhan Planning & Design Institute, China; Yun WANG, Wuhan Planning & Design Institute, China; Haijun LI, Wuhan Planning & Design Institute, China; Wenjing LUO, Wuhan Planning & Design Institute, China The seemingly unlimited growths of metropolises have put great challenges on their efficiency, livability and sustainability. With the rapid emergence of metropolises worldwide, how to best plan ahead for an efficient and livable metropolis has become a global key issue for planners and policy makers. With the rapid developments of megacities in China, policies and guidelines have been published towards making an efficient and livable metropolis recently. Local experiences in China have shown that there are two aspects of strategies that could be spread to the world. On one hand, with the changes in national administrations, there has been a trend of transformation of master plans which tends to focus more on regional collaborations out of the boundaries and urban growths within the boundaries. On the other hand, local governments in lots of Chinese metropolises have realized the benefits of big data and set up online planning platforms for metropolises to upgrade the traditional planning methods. This session focuses on how to best plan ahead for an efficient and livable megacity by taking the experiences of Wuhan which is a typical growing metropolis and can shed some lights on other cities worldwide. During the first part of the session, Wenjing LUO will introduce the backgrounds of making an efficient and livable metropolis in China, followed by a quick introduction of Wuhan. During the second part, Yun WANG, the head of Master Plan Division of WPDI will give a presentation on the master plan of Wuhan metropolis. Then, Haijung LI, the head of East Lake Branch of WPDI and Wenjing LUO will talk specifically about on how to collaborate out of the boundary and grow within the boundary, with the topic of corridor strategies and boundary defining for metropolitan areas. This is followed by Yongdong QIU, the chief engineer of WPDI, who will give a presentation about Wuhan Planning Lab which helps establishing and implementing master plans by online platforms. The last part of the session will be a moderated round table discussion, open for all interested parties, aiming at summarizing replicable experiences from Wuhan and exploring the effective strategies towards planning ahead for an efficient and livable metropolis.
