Are Beijing and Shanghai automobile dependent cities?
Automobile dependence was a deliberate policy of many developed cities in the modernist period since the 1940s. As cities are now overcoming automobile dependence the attention has turned to the emerging world, especially China. The chapter shows that the two most influential Chinese cities, Beijing...
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Edward Elgar Publishing
2020
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| author | Gao, Yuan Newman, Peter |
| author2 | Chen, Chia-Lin |
| author_facet | Chen, Chia-Lin Gao, Yuan Newman, Peter |
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| description | Automobile dependence was a deliberate policy of many developed cities in the modernist period since the 1940s. As cities are now overcoming automobile dependence the attention has turned to the emerging world, especially China. The chapter shows that the two most influential Chinese cities, Beijing and Shanghai, have reached ‘peak car' and have low automobile dependence. The chapter suggests that although China is in a period of rapid urbanization and motorization, these two cities are not automobile dependent and are unlikely to succumb to automobile dependence. This phenomenon can be explained by economic, cultural and administrative factors, especially Chinese traditional dense urbanism, which involves mostly walking and transit urban fabrics. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-833922021-05-12T02:32:36Z Are Beijing and Shanghai automobile dependent cities? Gao, Yuan Newman, Peter Chen, Chia-Lin Pan, Haixiao Shen, Qing Wang, James Automobile dependence was a deliberate policy of many developed cities in the modernist period since the 1940s. As cities are now overcoming automobile dependence the attention has turned to the emerging world, especially China. The chapter shows that the two most influential Chinese cities, Beijing and Shanghai, have reached ‘peak car' and have low automobile dependence. The chapter suggests that although China is in a period of rapid urbanization and motorization, these two cities are not automobile dependent and are unlikely to succumb to automobile dependence. This phenomenon can be explained by economic, cultural and administrative factors, especially Chinese traditional dense urbanism, which involves mostly walking and transit urban fabrics. 2020 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/83392 10.4337/9781786439246.00021 Edward Elgar Publishing restricted |
| spellingShingle | Gao, Yuan Newman, Peter Are Beijing and Shanghai automobile dependent cities? |
| title | Are Beijing and Shanghai automobile dependent cities? |
| title_full | Are Beijing and Shanghai automobile dependent cities? |
| title_fullStr | Are Beijing and Shanghai automobile dependent cities? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Are Beijing and Shanghai automobile dependent cities? |
| title_short | Are Beijing and Shanghai automobile dependent cities? |
| title_sort | are beijing and shanghai automobile dependent cities? |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/83392 |