文档介绍：The 4 th International Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU)
2009 Amsterdam/Delft
The New Urban Question – Urbanism beyond Neo-Liberalism
POST GENERIC CITY – LEARNING FROM SHENZHEN
THE GONGMING EXPERIMENT
Laurence LIAUW Wie Wu
Associate Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin NT, Hong Kong, China, Email:laurence_liauw@
ABSTRACT: This paper refers to and critiques the urban theory of Generic Cities applied to contemporary
urban developments in Southern China’s Pearl River Delta. Chinese control planning following models from
Central Government have meant that high speed development is producing generic cities all over the country.
Shenzhen as the first tabula rasa urban prototype is undergoing urban reforms to break the cycle of repetition
and indifference, keeping the petitive. Shenzhen has been launching strategic petitions
that call for innovation new models. Guangming New Radiant City and Gongming New Central District are
experimental projects to rethink generic control planning. Post-generic strategies and tactics draw upon
research into rapid transformation of other global generic cities, and also test a Dynamic City Model with
catalytic Hot Zones. Urban performance evaluation criteria and an ‘urban bar code’ is deployed as a planning
munication tool. Learning from Shenzhen may be a new syste