A Study of TOD on the Regeneration in Historical City Center Under the Background of High-speed Expanding Cities in China

This paper discusses the Transit-Oriented Development used in the process of regenerating the historical center, based on the research of the development and the achievements in TOD of different cities in the past twenty years. The TOD has already showed the potential in regenerating historical centers. But considering the facts of Chinese cities that under high-speed expanding, it is anticipated to promote some integrated thinking of the TOD in regenerating a historical city center, which is suitable to the scale and form of the old urban fabric in this paper. Transit Oriented Development (TOD) is a mode mixed-use residential or commercial area designed to maximize access to the public transport, and often incorporates features to encourage transit ridership. Transit-oriented development based on transit system, help improve efficiency of land use and transit operations in neighborhood in different areas of city and make them work together. While over the past decade, in most of the developing countries, the cities are facing huge problems on regeneration in the historical city center. The confliction between the worth of historical city center and the demanding of rapidly urbanization arise in many aspects.

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Transit-Oriented Development
historical city center
transformation
spatial reconstruction
public transportation
connection

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2012-06-30

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