Sustainability outcomes and policy implications: Evaluating China's "old urban neighborhood renewal" experiment.

Autor: Wang R; School of Art and Design, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China., Wu H; Department of Landscape Architecture, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America., Chiles R; Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, Department of Food Science, Rock Ethics Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America., Yang Y; School of Planning, Public Policy, and Management, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2024 Apr 30; Vol. 19 (4), pp. e0301380. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Apr 30 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0301380
Abstrakt: Globally, old urban neighborhood transformation has become a new urban sustainability focus for its significant contribution to the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal 11. A regeneration-oriented approach is particularly important for Chinese cities with a dwindling land supply, obsoleting infrastructure, and inadequate standard of living. Using a mixed-methods approach informed by BREEAM Communities, we examined two Chinese initiatives-old urban neighborhood renewal (OUNR) and sponge city development (SCD)-through a comprehensive study of pilot project sustainability, policy emphases and gaps, and broader governance implications. We found that SCD's top-down technocratic management was highly efficient in enhancing neighborhood hydrological functions and physical environment. However, successes were undermined by the lack of climate considerations and civic participation. Besides actionable recommendations for applied scholarship and policymaking in China, we provide insight into how the OUNR/SCD initiatives may broadly inform worldwide urban regeneration practices through project and policy experimentations that build adaptive capacity.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright: © 2024 Wang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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