Mr tom，24 years experience, usa urban designer by Allen Zhu

目前状态：人在美国，薪酬可谈姓名：Tom 年龄：55岁工作经验：24年语言：英文毕业时间：1992年毕业于美国加州大学伯克利分校学位：建筑学硕士设计领域：建筑设计，城市规划擅长领域：方案设计可工作地点：上海，深圳，美国，英国，欧洲 Tom先生1992年硕士毕业于美国加州大学伯克利分校建筑系，擅长建筑与城市规划方案设计。2013-2015年间Tom先生曾在上海Gensler担任规划总监，其在中国的项目有曲靖寥廓山总体规划（370平方公里）、福建省漳州CBD总体规划（280平方公里）、曲靖南盘江总体规划（32平方公里）、北京人民大学（121公顷）。

Current Status: In USA，Salary is negotiable Name: Tom Age: 55 years old Working Experience: 24 years Language(s): English Year of graduation: Graduated in 1992 from University of California, Berkeley, USA Degree: Master of Architecture Design area: Architectural design, Urban planning Field of specialization: Concept design Cities to work in: Shanghai, Shenzhen, USA, UK, Europe Mr Tom graduated in 1992 from University of California at Berkeley with Master of Architecture, he specializes in architecture and urban planning concept design. From 2013 till 2015, Mr Tom was working at Gensler Shanghai as Studio Director for Planning and Urban Design. His projects in China include Qujing Liaokuo Mountain Master Plan (370sqkm), Fujian Zhangzhou New CBD Master Plan (280 sqkm), Qujing Nan Pan River Master Plan (32sqkm), Beijing University Renmin University (121 ha).

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PR OF ES S I ONAL EXPER I ENC E D ur i ng my 2 0 -y e a r p r o f e ssi o na l p l a nni ng c a r e e r , I l i v e d i n A si a f r o m 2 0 1 0 t hr o ug h 2 0 1 5 a nd p r o v i d e d p l a nni ng a nd ur b a n d e si g n se r v i c e s a nd p r o j e c t ma na g e me nt a s a c o nsul t a nt t o t he A si a o f f i c e s o f i nt e r na t i o na l d e si g n f i r ms. T ha t i nt e r na t i o na l p l a nni ng a nd ur b a n d e si g n w o r k f o l l o w e d t he f o und i ng o f my o w n c o nsul t i ng f i r m i n 2 0 0 8 i n Ca l i f o r ni a . O v e r my t w o d e c a d e s o f p r o f e ssi o na l p r a c t i c e , I ha v e d e v e l o p e d a n a b i l i t y t o e nt e r a p r o j e c t , i d e nt i f y p r o b l e ms, a nd d e v e l o p so l ut i o ns i n a t i me l y ma nne r . T he p r o j e c t s I ha v e c o mp l e t e d a r e p r i ma r i l y ur b a ni st i n t he i r a p p r o a c h a nd v i si o n. I ha v e ma ny y e a r s o f e x p e r i e nc e a s a t e a m l e a d e r , p r e p a r i ng ur b a n d e si g n st ud i e s a nd c o mp r e he nsi v e p l a nni ng p r o j e c t s f o r c o mp l e x si t e s a nd p r o g r a ms. 2 0 0 8 – P r es en t

Th e O f f ic e of Tom F or d , O a kla n d , C A P r in c ip a l T he O f f i c e o f T o m F o r d (O o T F ) p r o v i d e s ur b a n d e si g n a nd l a nd use p l a nni ng se r v i c e s, i nc l ud i ng p r o j e c t ma na g e me nt , p l a n p r e p a r a t i o n, a nd g r a p hi c c o nt e nt . o E V A N S L A N E S I T E D ES I G N A N D E N T I T L EMEN T f o r A b o d e S e r v i c e s, S a n Jo se , Ca l i f o r ni a . o R EN D EZ V O US W I N E B A R B R A N D I N G A N D E N T I T L EMEN T f o r Co l e ma n’s R e nd e z v o us, W o o d st o c k , I l l i no i s. o W A V ER L Y S T R EET G R A N N Y F L A T D ES I G N f o r p r i v a t e c l i e nt , O l d T o w ne H i st o r i c D i st r i c t , O r a ng e , Ca l i f o r ni a . o A L UMN I A S S O C I A T I O N S T R A T EG I C F A C I L I T I ES S T UD Y f o r t he U ni v e r si t y o f Ca l i f o r ni a , B e r k e l e y .

2013 – 2015

Ge n s le r St u d io D ir e c t or , Sh a n g h a i Asia Re g io n Prac t ic e L e ade r, Plan n in g & U rb an D e sig n I l e d a n e i g ht -p e r so n P l a nni ng & U r b a n D e si g n st ud i o t o i mp l e me nt ma st e r p l a nni ng a nd ur b a n d e si g n w o r k t hr o ug ho ut G r e a t e r Chi na . I a l so d i r e c t e d t he ma r k e t i ng a nd b usi ne ss d e v e l o p me nt e f f o r t s o f t he st ud i o a nd o v e r sa w t he st a f f i ng o f p r o j e c t s i n t he st ud i o . M a st e r P l a n p r o j e c t s i nc l ud e : o L I O A K UO M O UN T A I N M A S T ER P L A N , Q uj i ng , Yunna n P r o v e nc e . S t ud i o D i r e c t o r . 3 7 0 sq k m. o C O A S T A L A R EA N EW C B D M A S T ER P L A N , Z ha ng z ho u, F uj i a n P r o v e nc e . S t ud i o D i r e c t o r . 2 8 0 sq k m. o N A N P A N R I V ER M A S T ER P L A N , Q uj i ng , Yunna n P r o v e nc e . S t ud i o D i r e c t o r . 3 2 sq k m. o R EN MI N U N I V ER S I T Y E A S T C A MP US M A S T ER P L A N , B e i j i ng . L e a d ma st e r p l a nne r . 1 2 1 ha .

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Se le c t e d In t e r n a t ion a l W or k A s a c o nsul t a nt t o t he H o ng Ko ng a nd Chi na o f f i c e s o f i nt e r na t i o na l d e si g n f i r ms, O o T F c o l l a b o r a t e d o n a se r i e s o f p r o j e c t s i n A si a : o D I A N C H I N O R T H E C O C I T Y M A S T ER P L A N f o r Kunmi ng Xi n H a i H ui I nv e st me nt Co mp a ny . O o T F c o l l a b o r a t e d w i t h t he G e nsl e r H o ng Ko ng o f f i c e . o S H I Z EMEN C B D ( H EN G Q I N ) A N D H EN G Q I N G A T EWA Y S ER V I C E A R EA D ES I G N G UI D EL I N ES f o r H ua f a . O o T F c o l l a b o r a t e d w i t h t he S ha ng ha i o f f i c e o f A e d a s. o L O N G D I EN U R B A N D ES I G N M A S T ER P L A N f o r S o ut hl a nd , V i e t na m. O o T F p r o v i d e d p l a nni ng se r v i c e s f o r a c o a st a l si t e so ut h o f H o Chi M i nh Ci t y . o X I N C UN S H A I S L A N D N EW T O WN . O o T F w o r k e d a s a sub c o nsul t a nt t o t he H o ng Ko ng o f f i c e o f W o o d s B ag ot. o S UN R I V ER D ET A I L ED M A S T ER P L A N A N D U R B A N D ES I G N G UI D EL I N ES . O o T F w o r k e d a s a sub c o nsul t a nt t o t he H o ng Ko ng o f f i c e o f W o o d s B a g o t . o G V K S K Y C I T Y D ET A I L ED M A S T ER P L A N f o r M umb a i I nt e r na t i o na l A i r p o r t P v t . L t d (M I A L ). O o T F w o r k e d a s a sub c o nsul t a nt t o t he H o ng Ko ng o f f i c e o f H O K/A si a P a c i f i c . o B A N D A R S ER I B EG A WA N D EV EL O P MEN T M A S T ER P L A N f o r t he M uni c i p a l B o a r d o f B a nd a r S e r i B e g a w a n, N a t i o n o f B r une i . O o T F w o r k e d a s a sub c o nsul t a nt t o H O K/A si a P a c i f i c . T he D e v e l o p me nt M a st e r P l a n w a s a w a r d e d a 2 0 1 1 U r b a n D e si g n M e r i t A w a r d f r o m t he H o ng Ko ng Cha p t e r o f t he A me r i c a n I nst i t ut e o f A r c hi t e c t s.

1999 – 2008

D e s ig n , C om m u n it y & E n vir on m e n t , Be r ke le y, C A P r in c ip a l P r i nc i p a l - i n- c ha r g e a nd P r o j e c t M a na g e r f o r ur b a n d e si g n a nd p l a nni ng p r o j e c t s.

1994 – 1999

C a lt h or p e A s s oc ia t e s , Be r ke le y, C A Ur b a n D e s ig n e r

1993

Ta is e i C or p or a t ion , Tokyo, J a p a n In t e r n A r c h it e c t

1993 – 1995

In d u s t r ia l L ig h t a n d M a g ic , Sa n R a f a e l, C A Se t D e s ig n e r

1990

Skid m or e , O w in g s & M e r r ill, Sa n F r a n c is c o, C A Ur b a n D e s ig n e r

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EDUC ATI ON M AS T E R OF A R C HI T E C T U R E , Un ive r s it y of C a lif or n ia , Be r ke le y A me r i c a n I nst i t ut e o f A r c hi t e c t s S c ho l a r shi p B AC HE LOR OF A R T S , D R AM AT I C A R T , Un ive r s it y of C a lif or n ia , D a vis Cha nc e l l o r â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s U nd e r g r a d ua t e A c hi e v e me nt A w a r d PANEL S AND S PEAKI NG o B AS E I NS T I NC T S , P r e se nt e r a nd P a ne l i st , Th e C o u n c i l o n Ta l l Bu i l d i n gs a n d Ur b a n H a b i t a t a nnua l me e t i ng , N e w Yo r k , O c t o b e r , 2 0 1 5 . o P E R FE C T I NG T HE P U B LI C R E ALM , P r e se nt e r a nd P a ne l i st , D e v e l o p i n g C i t i e s wi t h L o w F o o t p r i n t s, E a st Chi na N o r ma l U ni v e r si t y , S ha ng ha i , O c tobe r, 2 0 1 5 . o F U T U R E D E V E LOP M E NT I N S HANG HAI , P a ne l i st , D e si gn a n d C o n st r u c t i o n F o r u m, A me r i c a n Cha mb e r o f Co mme r c e i n S ha ng ha i , S e p t e mb e r , 2 0 1 5 . o T HE F I R S T 1 0 M E T E R S , P r e se nt e r , Su st a i n a b i l i t y F o r u m, U ni t e s S t a t e s Co nsul a t e , S he ny a ng , M a y , 2 0 1 5 . o P AR K I NG S T R AT E G I E S FOR A T R ANS I T -O R I E NT E D D OW NT OW N , P a ne l i st , Ca l i f o r ni a D o w nt o w n A sso c i a t i o n, 2 0 0 8 . o S AC R AM E NT O R AI LY AR D S : L E S S ONS I N R E D E V E LOP M E NT , P a ne l i st , A me r i c a n P l a nni ng A sso c i a t i o n, Ca l i f o r ni a Cha p t e r Co nf e r e nc e , 2 0 0 8 . o G E T T I NG O R I E NT E D I N T R ANS I T -O R I E NT E D D E V E LOP M E NT , M o d e r a t o r , A me r i c a n P l a nni ng A sso c i a t i o n, Ca l i f o r ni a Cha p t e r Co nf e r e nc e , 2 0 0 7 . o A C HAR R E T T E NOT A C HAR AD E , P a ne l i st , A me r i c a n P l a nni ng A sso c i a t i o n, Ca l i f o r ni a Cha p t e r Co nf e r e nc e , 2 0 0 7 . o T R ANS FOR M I NG T HE F AB R I C T O U R B AN , A me r i c a n P l a nni ng A sso c i a t i o n, Ca l i f o r ni a Cha p t e r Co nf e r e nc e , 2 0 0 7 . PUB L I C ATI ONS o B ase I n sti n c ts, a p a p e r p ub l i she d b y t he Co unc i l o n T a l l B ui l d i ng s a nd U r b a n H a b i t a t i n t he a nnua l c o nf e r e nc e c o mp e nd i um, O c t o b e r 2 0 1 5 . A ut ho r . o P l an n i n g & U rb an D esi gn A si a, a r e so ur c e a nd ma r k e t i ng b o o k p ub l i she d b y G e nsl e r , p r o v i d i ng a n o v e r v i e w o f p r o j e c t s i n t he A si a r e g i o n, no t a b l y Chi na . E d i t o r a nd c o -a ut ho r . o T h e R egi o n al C i ty : P l an n i n g f o r th e E n d o f S p rawl , b y P e t e r Ca l t ho r p e a nd W i l l i a m F ul t o n. Co nt r i b ut e d d r a w i ng s. o G reat S treets, b y A l l a n B . Ja c o b s. Co nt r i b ut e d d r a w i ng s. o U rb an R ev i si o n s, e d i t e d b y R usse l l F e r g uso n. Co nt r i b ut e d d r a w i ng s.

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H O NO R S AND A W AR DS o G E NS LE R D E S I G N E XC E LLE NC E A W AR D ( GD E A ) . 2 0 1 4 . L i o ak u o M o u n tai n M aster P l an . G e nsl e r S t ud i o D i r e c t o r . o H ONG K ONG C HAP T E R A M E R I C AN I NS T I T U T E OF A R C HI T E C T S U R B AN D E S I G N M E R I T A W AR D . 2 0 1 1 . B an d ar S eri B egawan D ev el o p men t M aster P l an f o r th e M u n i c i p al B o ard o f B an d ar S eri B egawan , N ati o n o f B ru n ei . Co nsul t a nt t o H O K/A si a P a c i f i c . o S AN D I E G O C HAP T E R A M E R I C AN P LANNI NG A S S OC I AT I ON 1 S T P LAC E A W AR D FOR B E S T P R AC T I C E S . 2 0 1 0 . D esi gn i n g f o r S mart G ro wth f o r th e S an D i ego A sso c i ati o n o f G o v ern men ts. D C& E U r b a n D e si g n P r i nc i p a l a nd P r o j e c t M a na g e r . o S AC R AM E NT O V ALLE Y S E C T I ON A M E R I C AN P LANNI NG A S S OC I AT I ON 1 S T P LAC E A W AR D FOR N E I G HB OR HOOD P LANNI NG . 2 0 0 9 . S o u th west C h i c o N ei gh b o rh o o d I mp ro v emen t P l an f o r th e C i ty o f C h i c o . D C& E P r i nc i p a l -i n-Cha r g e a nd Cha r r e t t e M a na g e r . o C ALI FOR NI A C HAP T E R A M E R I C AN P LANNI NG A S S OC I AT I ON A W AR D FOR O U T S T AND I NG N E I G HB OR HOOD P LANNI NG . 2 0 0 8 . C al i f o rn i a A v en u e M aster P l an f o r th e F resn o Ho u si n g A u th o ri ty . D C& E P r i nc i p a l -i nCha r g e . o N OR T HE R N C ALI FOR NI A S E C T I ON A M E R I C AN P LANNI NG A S S OC I AT I ON M E R I T A W AR D FOR F OC U S E D I S S U E P LANNI NG . 2 0 0 8 . D o wn to wn S tati o n A rea S p ec i f i c P l an f o r th e C i ty o f S an ta R o sa. P r i nc i p a l -i n-Cha r g e . o S AC R AM E NT O V ALLE Y S E C T I ON A M E R I C AN P LANNI NG A S S OC I AT I ON A W AR D FOR C OM P R E HE NS I V E P LANNI NG B Y A L AR G E J U R I S D I C T I ON . 2 0 0 8 . S ac ramen to R ai l y ard s S p ec i f i c P l an f o r T h o mas E n terp ri ses. D C& E P r i nc i p a l -i n-Cha r g e a nd P r o j e c t M a na g e r . o N OR T HE R N C ALI FOR NI A S E C T I ON A M E R I C AN P LANNI NG A S S OC I AT I ON A W AR D FOR P LANNI NG I M P LE M E NT AT I ON B Y A S M ALL J U R I S D I C T I ON . 2 0 0 8 . 2 3 r d S treet S p ec i f i c P l an f o r th e C i ty o f S an P ab l o . D C& E P r i nc i p a l i n-Cha r g e a nd P r o j e c t M a na g e r . o C ALI FOR NI A C HAP T E R A P A M E R I T A W AR D FOR C OM P R E HE NS I V E P LANNI NG B Y A S M ALL J U R I S D I C T I ON . 2 0 0 7 . V i si o n P l an f o r th e C i ty o f C o ac h el l a. D C& E P r i nc i p a l -i n-Cha r g e a nd P r o j e c t M a na g e r . o N OR T HE R N C ALI FOR NI A S E C T I ON A M E R I C AN P LANNI NG A S S OC I AT I ON M E R I T A W AR D FOR F OC U S E D I S S U E P LANNI NG . 2 0 0 5 . R esi d en ti al D esi gn G u i d el i n es f o r th e T o wn o f Hi l l sb o ro u gh. D C& E P r o j e c t M a na g e r . o H ONOR AB LE M E NT I ON , V I LLAG E C E NT E R D E S I G N C OM P E T I T I ON . 1 9 9 9 . Cha nna ho n, I l l i no i s. o T AI S E I I NT E R NAT I ONAL F E LLOW . 1 9 9 3 . T a i se i Co r p o r a t i o n. T o k y o , Ja p a n. TEAC HI NG o L ec tu rer, U n i v ersi ty o f C al i f o rn i a, D av i s. D e p a r t me nt o f E nv i r o nme nt a l D e si g n, F i e l d S t ud i o i n L a nd sc a p e A r c hi t e c t ur e . 2 0 0 9 .

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PR OF ES S I ONAL A F F I L I ATI ONS o U R B AN L AND I NS T I T U T E , M e mb e r . o A M E R I C AN I NS T I T U T E OF A R C HI T E C T S , A sso c i a t e M e mb e r . o T HE C OU NC I L ON T ALL B U I LD I NG S AND U R B AN H AB I T AT , U r b a n H a b i t a t /U r b a n D e si g n Co mmi t t e e M e mb e r . o A M E R I C AN I NS T I T U T E OF C E R T I FI E D P LANNE R S , M e mb e r . o A M E R I C AN C HAM B E R OF C OM M E R C E S HANG HAI ( A M C HAM ) , M e mb e r . o I NT E R NAT I ONAL D I V I S I ON , A M E R I C AN P LANNI NG A S S OC I AT I ON , M e mb e r . o U R B AN D E S I G N AND H I S T OR I C P R E S E R V AT I ON D I V I S I ON , A M E R I C AN P LANNI NG A S S OC I AT I ON , M e mb e r . o A S I A S OC I E T Y , M e mb e r (H o ng Ko ng ). o T HE C ONG R E S S FOR T HE N E W U R B ANI S M , Cha r t e r S i g na t o r y a nd M e mb e r . o N AT I ONAL C HAR R E T T E I NS T I T U T E , Ce r t i f i e d Cha r r e t t e P l a nne r . o G R E E NB E LT A LLI ANC E , P a st M e mb e r , Co mp a c t D e v e l o p me nt Co mmi t t e e . o C ALT R ANS D I S T R I C T 4 P E D E S T R I AN A D V I S OR Y C OM M I T T E E , P a st M e mb e r . o A C T OR S E QU I T Y A S S OC I AT I ON , M e mb e r (i na c t i v e ).

Base Instincts Abstract Tom Ford Regional Practice Leader for Planning & Urban Design Gensler, Shanghai, China

Tom Ford has been with Gensler since 2012, initially in Hong Kong, before relocating to the Shanghai office to become the Planning & Urban Design Studio Leader. He is a motivated member of multiple project teams and provides senior leadership and urban design expertise to Gensler projects throughout Asia. Tom is particularly interested in the cultural and physical contexts in which large and complex projects are envisioned and developed. He is highly successful in maintaining good client relationships and is valued by both clients and team members for his collaborative design approach, work ethic, sense of humor, and communication skills.

Recent development has included significant advancement in the development of tall buildings. While the design achievement and skyline contributions have been significant, there has been a considerable lack of execution in the design at the base of tall buildings. We examine recent urban development in China and identify a series of contributing factors to the lack of design and development achievement at three community scales. Our investigation stakes a premise that the environment at the base of buildings is innately related to the health and happiness of the community. In the best cities it is simply a primal experience. We identify elements that at a basic level feed the successful urban habitat. We explore the disconnect between providing a piece of the skyline while not providing a piece of the city. Where the building touches the ground—and the streets around that juncture—is the primary focus of our discussion. Keywords: Code Compliance; Community; Instinct(ively); Public Space; Urban Design; Urbanication

Russell Gilchrist Firmwide Tall Buildings Practice Area Leader Gensler, Chicago, USA

Since professional qualification as an architect in 1988, Russell has amassed a portfolio of high-profile architecture and master planning expertise in multiple building types across the US, Europe, and Asia. He formerly worked with SOM and ASGG as a design director. Prior to that he worked with Richard Rogers Partnership and Foster & Partners, completing award winning projects, including: the Pearl River Tower in Guangzhou, Protos Winery in Northern Spain, Glyndebourne Opera House, UK, ‘Reichstag’ Parliament Building, Berlin and 88 Wood Street for Daiwa Europe Properties in London.

Cities differentiate themselves by their skylines and their rich variety of resources, places, and populations. As regional destinations, marketplaces, cultural centers and activity hubs, city centers stand as icons in their regions. Their skylines are the markers that attract residents and strangers alike to the vast attraction and promising complexity of urban life. However, as much as a city’s tall buildings will define its skyline, it is the activity below, in the streets and buildings of the city’s far-ranging blocks and districts, that will deliver true civic promise and community pride.

We’re Off to See the Wizard In the children’s classic story, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, written at the turn of the twentieth century, Dorothy finds herself lost in a strange land and soon learns that any route for getting home again to Kansas will require a trip through the Emerald City (Baum, 1900). The strangers she encounters counsel her to visit Oz, the Emerald City wizard, and so she begins a journey that takes her from the Country of the Munchkins to the Land of Oz and on to the city. Along her journey she befriends other characters and takes them on as travelling companions. Their course of travel, marked by a road made of golden brick, takes them through the woods and countryside of the vast hinterlands surrounding the Emerald City. The journey through the countryside is fraught with peril and danger, requiring Dorothy and her cohorts to face down wild beasts together with treacherous and unforgiving terrain, but at

Figure 1. The skyline of a city can provide a powerful image that serves as a beacon when viewed from afar. The skyline of Chicago is seen from O’Hare International Airport, 12 miles from the city center. CHICAGO SKYLINE. (Source: Tom Ford)

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last they arrive at the city. Written in an era largely before the advent of the skyscraper, the city Baum details in his book is one of urban orderliness, with tidy streets formed by green fences and farmhouses. As the travellers proceed along their route, those fences and houses slowly become denser, before giving way to the gates to the Emerald City. Indeed, the image Baum presents of the wizard’s city is almost medieval, with a city wall and entry gate keeping uncivilized danger away while within the wall, Emerald City citizenry bustle about in green-tinted protective eyewear. Dorothy and her friends are “dazzled by the brilliancy of the wonderful City,” the green marble pavement, window panes of green tinted glass and the sky above—even the sun’s rays—all green (Baum, p. 197). The specter of the city is one defined not by height, stone, glass, and steel but by an allure of excitement and grandeur, orderliness and activity, all washed in green, the color of life. As Baum went to publication at the turn of that century, however, the nature of urban development was changing dramatically with the advent of taller buildings. “The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age.” (Huxtable, p. 1). Baum’s city is tidy and neat and contrasts with the depiction of the wild and unruly lands outside the city. In contrast, by the time MGM released the film version of his book in 1939, cities—and their image in the popular imagination—had changed greatly. Whereas, Baum’s 1900 narrative is largely about getting to the orderly and urbane city, the film version of The Wizard of Oz renders a city marked by a gleaming and soaring arrangement of skyscrapers. As Dorothy and her travelling companions emerge from the film set’s forest and follow the yellow brick road into a clearing, they are awed by the vision of the towering and green sparkling Emerald City, glimmering in the distance and beckoning them to travel across the remaining length of countryside and end their journey within the city limits of Oz.

Figure 2. The scale of the sidewalk and trees matches the predominant user of a Hong Kong street. HANKOW ROAD IN TSIM SHA TSUI, HONG KONG. (Source: Tom Ford)

capture and hold a far-flung viewer’s attention in a similar fashion. The silhouette of a skyline, unique as a fingerprint, holds a magical draw for the viewer and conjures hopes—or for some, memories—of good and enjoyable times to be had in the urban milieu of that city’s streets and attractions (see Figure 1). In The Image of the City, Kevin Lynch differentiates between observing the city and being an active participant (Lynch, 1960). Tall buildings and the skylines they collectively form allow us to view the city as an object. But without the contributions and active participation of millions of inhabitants, a city cannot exist in any exciting and meaningful way. The environment in which that collective activity takes place requires as great an attention to design detail as do the buildings that form the skyline. The design of the ground plane and the urban habitat around

buildings is a critical element of an enjoyable and liveable place. The pedestrian realm, when purposefully designed, can assure active, safe, and viable streets that serve as the framework for vital neighborhoods and districts (see Figure 2.) The spaces that are interspersed among a city’s buildings play a vital role in the experience and liveability of the urban environment. Whether as singular components of a specific site or as a series of spaces—public and private open space—strung along a network to connect nodes or embellish a particular route, these spaces serve as the platforms for both active and passive use. In the best examples, these spaces play a vital and necessary role in our ability to function in urban environments (see Figure 3).

Skyline and Ground Plane, Observer and Participant Just as the filmed version of The Wizard of Oz contains a memorable and compelling image of a city—the Emerald City—an image that awes its viewers and compels them to gravitate toward it, cities around the world today can

Figure 3. A statue honoring Nie Er, composer of the Chinese national anthem, is the featured element of an unnamed open space in Shanghai. The interior of the open space (left), is well designed and offers shade and places for sitting or gathering. The statue and the space open out to a busy intersection and the tall buildings and urban milieu that surround the space (right). NIE ER STATUE, SHANGHAI. (Source: Tom Ford)

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Figure 4. The dramatic spectacle of the Lujiazui skyline in Shanghai has not been matched at the ground plane, where the pedestrian realm has been designed primarily for the benefit of moving vehicular traffic. LUJIAZUI SKYLINE AND SHANGHAI TOWER GROUND PLANE, SHANGHAI. (Source: Gensler)

Base Instincts As the world evolves toward a place that is to a greater degree urban, a sustained vigor in the design of our cities has become a critical piece of the transition. Urbanists and nonurbanists alike describe cities as the habitats within which one is most likely to find the greatest number of basic needs—the material and non-material elements that satisfy our base instincts. These environments—no matter the culture or place—have evolved over centuries to fit the basic needs of their inhabitants, using technologies and practices available to any particular era. Instinctively, humans strive for basic things: food, water, sleep, procreation, a roof over our heads. These things keep our lives centered, emotionally tethered to our homes and communities. At a very elementary level, these base instincts drive us. It is only after these basic needs are tended to that we are able to search for less vital but nonetheless important things: things that give us comfort. Cities—by their nature complex environments—provide the basic needs for the pursuit of a quality life but, because of their cosmopolitan complexity, have the capacity to provide indelibly more. There are a variety of elements—or patterns— in the design of buildings and the physical environment that encourage and support human activity because of their scale, simplicity, and ability to inform a physical orderliness (see

Alexander, 1977). In addition to providing basic needs, the meaningful urban habitat shapes and forms a complex yet orderly social experience and adequately provides a basis for healthy living. However, the urban habitat needs to operate at the scale and operability of its users. We generally know the solutions to these issues: human scale, public safety, and thermal comfort being just a few. Nonetheless, the urban habitat is often lacking in those necessary components that make up a functioning community.

Urbanization in China Many observers have pointed out that the expansion of affluence in China, together with the scale of its urban migration over the last one to two decades has led the country to implement a development pattern that is identical—or certainly similar—to the land use planning and urban design policies and solutions that have proven unsustainable in American urban development. Automobilecentric and land intensive planning, design, and development policies in western countries, largely evident in the post-World War II era, have led to costly sprawl, resource depletion, and air and water pollution. China has been implementing design and development practices that repeat the failed urban design and planning solutions that

lead to unsustainable sprawl, congestion, deserted urban streets, and a dramatic rise in health problems (Bosker, 2014). Many if not most of the recent tall buildings constructed have been in Asia, specifically China. Although there has been a lot of attention given by architects, planners, developers, and government officials to the design and spectacle of these buildings, there has not been as much consideration given to the design of the public realm that is comprised of the streets and pedestrian areas around these buildings (see Figure 4). It is the design of these areas on the ground plane that offer the greatest opportunities to reduce automobile dependency and promote a higher degree of liveability. The spaces at the bases of tall buildings and other components of the urban fabric face a number of design challenges beyond those of physical scale. Climatic elements and solar orientation add complexity to the challenges in developing design solutions that assure vitality in the plazas, entries, and sidewalks that connect buildings. Wind, rain, sun, and shadow—and a designer’s ability to provide refuge from these climatic conditions, which differ depending on the latitude and season of the year—are key components of urban design solutions for urban environments (see Figure 5).

Figure 5. Wind that runs under, between, or down the façade of a building can be modeled to help in the design of the ground plane around tall buildings. Downwash (right) is particularly prevalent at the base of tall buildings. Tall building shapes and façade treatments together with effective canopy design can mitigate down drafts. At the building base, landscaping and other methods to shield building entries can improve pedestrian realm. WIND MODELING. (Source: RWDI) 240 | CTBUH 2015 New York Conference

Figure 7. Sharing density across parcels to share the mutual benefit of open space. DENSITY TRANSFER AND COORDINATED GREEN ALLOCATION. (Source: Gensler)

The degradation of the environment in China and the lack of a holistic approach to the design of the urban habitat require new solutions that explore the design and program deficiency at the base of urban buildings. Below, we explore this issue at three separate scales: Site, Street, and District. For each scale, we use recent planning and urban design work in China to examine and illustrate planning strategies and design solutions that protect and promote the public realm. Our goal in this work is to develop and propose design strategies for the ground plane and surrounding environment that match the level of creativity and exploration that has typically been expended on the tall building. We believe this will help to alleviate the problems that an over-reliance on the automobile and an underappreciation of the spaces around tall buildings have created in cities in China.

area. However, it was underutilized as an asset upon which to shape a vision for the area, its twists and turns and picturesque features ignored in the siting of potentially key parcels that might draw value from the waterfront character to shape the public realm and urban habitat (see Figure 6). Our largest challenges in developing a solution were the regulatory elements of the development code, particularly the rules regarding maximum site coverage, building setbacks, and, to a lesser degree, maximum building height. With a priority of shaping development to maximize transit use, our goals included creating rules that would implement a superior pedestrian environment. In order to do this, we investigated methods to facilitate a mix of uses and prioritize transit use by de-emphasizing vehicular throughways and parking.

The subway network offered an ability to access the CBD from the planning area in as few as one or two stops. We determined that this offered a key impetus to plan for development in the areas around the subway stations that takes advantage of the transportation investment and opportunity. But when investigating the existing development regulations for maximum site coverage, minimum parcel green percentages, and building height maximums, we determined that the existing code did not differentiate between nontransit development sites and sites that lay beyond a reasonable walking distance from the stations. By planning for development that could take advantage of the subway network for a significant percentage of residents’ transportation needs, there was an opportunity to reduce dependence on the automobile but it would require design of the public realm to support safe and easy

The Building Site In Nanjing, we developed strategies to use building form to both shape the pedestrian realm along city streets and provide a way for future development to shape a differentiated and unique skyline. A Control Plan had been developed in accordance with the China development code for a 17-square kilometer area that held a complex and dynamic variety of site features. These features included a significant and storied river; a planned and partially constructed subway network that expanded on the city’s existing transit system; a varied topography across the planning area; a lack of open space, including parks and linear greenways, as well as any kind of an open space network; and, an over-reliance on one employment sector, which was saturating the area with low-paying jobs, guaranteeing an overabundance of lower-end housing and stagnating investment in the riverfront and improvements to streets and the public realm. The river winds its way through the site and provided an opportunity to enhance non-vehicular circulation across the planning

Figure 6. The urban design strategy for the Nanjing site established a vision for the riverfront that would create greater value along the water and extend the impact of that amenity inward toward the transit station areas. NANJING RIVERFRONT ILLUSTRATIVE. (Source: Gensler)

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particularly for parcels within a short walking distance of a subway station. Presently, the regulations for maximum site coverage do not allow for enough built area to frame and reinforce the sidewalk realm. We proposed to allow greater site coverage and building height on parcels within four hundred meters of a station, about the distance of a 5-minute walk. On the ground plane, this will allow for a greater amount of building frontage at the block perimeter, which will provide an edge to the pedestrian environment. It will also allow taller development around transit stations, which will differentiate the height across the district and allow for the creation of a discernible skyline (see Figure 8). At the same time, this will require greater attention to shade and shadow issues and how those elements impact public spaces. Figure 8. Focusing development at a transit node intensifies development at the transit opportunity and allows for the evolution of a skyline. INCENTIVISED DEVELOPMENT CONTROLS. (Source: Gensler)

pedestrian access and activity. Assuring that there is good urban design of the public realm will create a unique character for those transit neighborhoods and will add value to parcels much in the same way as taking advantage of the river’s amenity. Topography and a lack of open space provided opportunities to create nonvehicular circulation networks that could connect riverfront development to the transit opportunities. Likewise, such a pedestrian network would allow for a quicker access from the transit neighborhoods to the recreational and waterfront opportunities the river offers, thereby differentiating those neighborhoods in a way that will allow them to develop into places that would have a vital character that could stand apart from whatever character future buildings give the area.

One strategy we developed to revise the Control Plan is to allow and encourage the “sharing” and mixing of density and parcel green space across neighboring parcels (Figure 7). Partially shifting density from one parcel to another would allow a larger green area to be developed to the mutual benefit of both parcels, as well as other parcels. In some cases, differentiating the allowable maximum height might implement a better implementation of this strategy. The next step would be to follow the spirit of this mutual benefit development transfer across multiple parcels in the formation of an open space network. Such a green linear network could become a key component of the city’s circulation infrastructure and facilitate greater pedestrian and bicycle access to the subway stations, as well as the river and other areas across the district.

In Kunming we developed a strategy that would assure favorable walking environments on all sidewalks within the 4,000-hectare planning area. We first assigned two different zones that together cover the distance from building face to building face, including the right-of-way and the parcel setback. The Frontage Zone provides a series of conditions for the area between the building face and the curb while the Travelway Zone assembles a series of curb-to-curb lane configurations that conform to the planning area’s roadway hierarchy (see Figure 9).

Another planning strategy that will underpin better urban design is one that facilitates greater pedestrian activity,

Figure 9. The Frontage Zones and Travelway zones together create the street cross-section. FRONTAGE ZONE AND TRAVELWAY ASSIGNMENTS. (Source: Gensler)

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The Street

Figure 10. The cross-section of the planning area’s most significant street shows it set between a key open space and the new CBD. FEI HU DA DAO CROSS-SECTION. (Source: Gensler)

The goal for this strategy is to provide the local government and future developers with an assurance of the future sidewalk conditions on all streets in the planning area as development proceeds in multiple phases over many years. By coding each of the sidewalk environments envisioned for the Frontage Zone and likewise coding each of the potential configurations of the Travelway, every block face in the planning area can receive an assignment that shows its predicted street character at plan buildout. Figure 11. A variety of ratios were developed for the Master Plan for Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei, which is near the equator on the island of Borneo. The Master Plan put in place regulations that made building arcades mandatory for all new construction in the CBD. ARCADE DESIGN GUIDELINES. (Source: The Office of Tom Ford/HOK Asia Pacific)

Figure 12. The narrow lanes and intimate details of the lilong neighborhood exist in the context and sphere of new development that is taller and of a contemporary design style. ZHABEI DISTRICT LILONG, SHANGHAI. (Source: Gensler)

The frontage zone includes a series of components that comprise the public sidewalk realm in front of a building, including the building setback, if any. Each component, such as the Food and Beverage Zone, the Bike Lane, or the Sidewalk Zone, is given a dimension (including zero for some conditions, since not all streets will have food and beverage or bike lanes). Each potential configuration of Zones and dimensions is given a code and those codes are then assigned across the planning area. A series of street cross-section diagrams were developed for the various conditions (see Figure 10) and the codes are displayed along the dimension string at the bottom of the diagram. One component that was not detailed in the building frontage selections for the Kunming site was that of an arcade. Because the climate in Yunnan Province is relatively moderate for much of the year, shaping the building frontage to provide relief from sun and precipitation was not an overriding concern. However, we have developed strategies (see Figure 11) to address those types of adverse climatic conditions in other places, particularly in Southeast Asia, where latitude and locale create conditions in which rain and direct sun negatively impact an unprotected public realm to a greater degree and for a significantly longer portion of the year.

The District

Figure 13. The District government determined that a number of existing lilongs should be conserved (buildings shown with terra cotta roof color) in the redevelopment of the Zhabei District neighborhood. AN’ KANG YUAN SITE PLAN, SHANGHAI. (Source: Gensler)

In the Zhabei District of Shanghai, the small enclave of An’ Kang Yuan is a lilong (lane house) neighborhood that is rich in character, densely built and of a memorable context (see Figure 12). The district government desires to keep many of the lilong structures intact while allowing denser and taller new development to be built at appropriate places within the neighborhood (see Figure 13). The government’s desire is to see the new development—its height, massing, and style—implemented in such a way as to enhance the lilong neighborhood rather

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Figure 14. These renderings are the beginning of a long process to determine the appropriate physical and contextual relationship between the lilong buildings and new development in the neighborhood. PROPOSED AN’KANG YUAN VIEWS, SHANGHAI. (Source: Gensler)

than overwhelm it. The important issue in the government’s decision to plan for future development in this way is that they are not looking at the existing lilong development in a way that is nostalgic, simply wanting to keep the buildings because they are beautiful or touching. Rather, the government understands the dynamic way in which people live in these neighborhoods and the bustling scale with which community members enjoy vitality and a lifestyle that in many other parts of Shanghai—and China—has been rapidly disappearing and being replaced. The design challenge for the Zhabei District lilong neighborhoods has been one of devising a context for development that is part old and part new, part community heritage and part contemporary development. In this sense, there are actually two contexts: the old and the new. The key to developing successfully will be to meld those two contexts in a way that makes them mutually successful and allows the dynamic lifestyle to flourish (Figure 14).

Urban Design Moving Forward

Figure 15. The “new” often appears while viewing the “old” in Shanghai. PUDONG AS SEEN FROM PUXI, YU GARDENS, SHANGHAI. (Source: Tom Ford)

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We have examined the public realm at three different scales: Building Site, Street, and District to demonstrate the wide variety of entry points at which urban designers and planners can insert themselves into the design process and ensure that as design goes up, with the development of new buildings, it also goes out, and includes the context in which new development occurs. Each of the three scales examined above should continue to push at the

limits imposed by the Chinese development code. Perhaps more government-sponsored projects in the spirit of the Zhabei District planning effort will come to fore. As Emily Talen writes, “who isn’t for nudging and tweaking instead of commanding and bulldozing?” (Talen, p. 183). And as Jao points out, many of the urban planning principles set forth in the Athens Charter nearly 80 years ago at the Congres International d’Architecture Moderne (CIAM) remain relevant today (Jao, p.148). As is so often the case, moving forward requires looking backward and endeavoring to undertake a rigorous examination of what has worked and what has not in the design of the urban

habitat. As was shown in Figure 3, above, some of our cities’ older spaces continue to provide clues for the development of design solutions today that bring scale, activity, and complexity to the public realm. Reaching for the sky is one of the simplest and purest of human instincts. Tall buildings answer that desire in so many ways—symbolically, socially, and economically. However, beyond what a city gains from the tall building, there must remain an ability for it to function as an urban habitat. As Dorothy and her friends discovered in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, travelling to the city is not as rewarding as

reaping the rewards that come with spending time there upon arrival. In fact, the overriding reason for Dorothy’s journey was to be home again. Her home, although not a city but late nineteenth century rural America, was a place she understood and where she instinctually knew she belonged. Moving forward, a reinvigorated implementation of urban design principles and design intent that expose and promote the character and attributes of the places we endeavor to improve, will ensure the development of places people want to be in as well as observe (see Figure 15).

References: Baum, L. 1900, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, public domain. Available from itunes. Huxtable, L. (1982) The tall building artistically reconsidered. The New Criterion. [Online] (1). Available from: http://www.newcriterion.com. [Accessed: 16th March 2015] Lynch, K. 1960, The image of the city, M.I.T. Press, Cambridge. Alexander, C. 1977, A pattern language, Oxford University Press, New York. Bosker, B. (2014) Why is China making the same mistakes as America? The Guardian. [Online] 20th March. Available from: http://www. theguardian.com/cities/2014/aug/20/why-havent-chinas-cities-learned-from-americas-mistakes/print [Accessed 18th November 2014]. Talen, E. 2008, ‘Bad parenting’ in Urban design, eds A Krieger & W Saunders, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, pp. 183-185. Jao, J. 2012, Straight talk about China’s urbanization, Xinhua Publishing House, Beijing.

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Planning & urban design

A multi-disciplinary approach

规划与城市设计

多领域手段

Benefits of Planning Master planning enables a developer, an owner, or a government jurisdiction to think strategically about an entire project, responding to market opportunities, site conditions, technical issues and development objectives, master planning helps to define the relationships between use of the land and methods for developing the land that create and maintain a marketable product, a strong image, a pleasing environment, effective organization, efficient cost controls and enhanced value. Gensler’s dedicated master planning team combines the skills of regional and site planners, urban designers, landscape architects and placemaking specialists to offer a complete range of services dealing with the planning and design of the built environment. Master Planning Services • Urban regeneration and site development work • Urban design frameworks • Design codes and guides • Feasibility studies and site assessment • Site assembly • Legacy issue assessment • Consultation and community engagement • Participatory planning and design • Placemaking and marketing • Planning applications • Team leadership and project management Approach Based on methodical research and analysis, our approach to master planning is grounded in a thorough understanding of what makes an attractive place. We seek out creative and innovative solutions, while responding to the very specific conditions of a site, city or region, as well as addressing sustainability. We work in close collaboration with our clients and communities to develop high quality environments that respond to the aspirations and needs of their users.

规划的益处总体规划能够帮助开发商、业主或政府部门对整个项目进行战略性地思考。针对市场机会、场地条件、技术问题和发展目标等各个方面，总体规划有助于确定土地使用和土地开发方式之间的关系，进而以市场需求为目标，对项目进行开发和维护，不但带来良好的形象、愉悦的环境、有效的组织方式及成本控制，还会提高项目的价值。 Gensler公司专业的总体规划团队融合了优秀的区域和现场设计师、城市规划师、景观设计师和场所制造专家的精湛技艺，为您提供建筑环境规划和设计方面的全系列优质服务。

Cities are complex and dynamic places that evolve over time and are shaped by many forces. Gensler Planning & Urban Design projects utilize the talent and input of many different disciplines to inform the design. Urban designers, economists, architects, transportation engineers and placemaking specialists are just a few of the necessary components of a multi-disciplinary team. Our experience has shown us that the expertise represented by a broad range of professionals will better inform the complexity and sustainability of a city environment.

城市是一种纷繁复杂的产物，其演变过程通常受到多重外力的共同作用。Gensler规划与城市设计项目最大化专业人才价值及多领域专业以此影响设计。城市设计师、经济学家、建筑师、交通工程师和场域制造者仅仅是一个多领域团队中必要构建的一部分。经验告诉我们只有通过跨领域专才的通力协作才能促成一个城市环境的复合性及可持续性。

总体规划服务城市复兴和现场开发工作城市设计框架设计规范和指导可行性研究和现场评估现场组装建筑遗产价值评估咨询和社区活动共享规划和设计场所制造和市场拓展规划应用团队领导和项目管理思路方法通过系统的研究与分析，我们对于优美景观的组成要素拥有全面认识和独到见解，并以此指导总体的规划设计。我们始终追求创造性和创新型的规划方案，同时针对建筑、城市和区域的特殊环境，切实考虑景观设计的可持续性。通过开展与客户和社区的紧密合作，我们旨在设计高质量的环境景观来满足客户的内心渴望和切实需求。丰富经验我们在总体规划方面拥有丰富经验，能够为不同区域的各种开发项目提供服务，包括单独的乡村和城市建设、先期已开发的和后工业化用地、度假村、商业和教育场所、整个市区以及城市中心建设。

Range of Experience We have vast experience in master planning across a full spectrum of development locations including individual rural and urban sites, previously developed and post industrial land, resorts, commercial and education campuses, whole urban districts, and town and city centers. 24

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People First 以人为本

how we shape our planning landscape

Gensler如何进行规划设计 Ever present in our planning and urban design projects are common values that reflect the concerns of our design teams and the development and sustainability issues presently facing our communities worldwide. Our values provide themes—or lenses—through which our portfolio of projects can be viewed. Gensler的规划与城市设计项目所一直传达的共同价值体现了设计团队的关注点及国际社会当前面临的可持续发展问题。这些价值反映了Gensler项目作品的主题，也提供了审视项目的角度。

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The celebration of the timeless scale and patterns of human activity is essential to realizing tangible quality 遵循人类活动尺度与模式的永恒性对实现高品质至关重要。

Engines of Growth 发展引擎

Great places strategically multiply economic value for the region through investment and enhancement of quality of life

Ecocities Revisited 生态城市重新审视

Truly responsible city planning creates resilient visions that sustain the most precious resource of all: people

Cultural Investment 文化投资

Cultural and natural heritage form foundations for authenticity and value in a saturated market

Branded Environments 品牌化环境

Memorable identities emerge from design that distills the unique context of a place

通过投资和生活质量的提高，卓越的场所设计能战略性提升区域的经济价值。

真正承载社会责任感的城市规划能够创造灵活的愿景，保证人类这一最宝贵的资源永续不断、生生不息。

在市场饱和的情况下，自然和人文遗产是原真性与价值的基石。

从场所的人文特色中寻找设计灵感，就能呈现令人难忘的场所印象。

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02 Project Experience

项目经验

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Qujing Strategic Master Plan 曲靖战略规划 Qujing, China 中国，曲靖

Concurrent to formulating the strategic plan, our team consistently assist the local government in identifying and developing short-term and longterm goals and strategies for the project, as well as potential development opportunities. In order to carry out the spatial planning of Qujing downtown’s water catchment areas while promoting the rapid development of the overall region, the local government has put forth the resources conservation and systematic development plan for the Nanpan River and Liaokuo Mountain areas. Our Gensler team has proposed a strategic master plan for the entire 630 square kilometres that encompasses a comprehensive set of measures to balance economic development with the protection of the environment and indigenous culture. The team is committed to working closely with local expert teams and the government towards the actual realization of a resilient city that is livable and with work opportunities, where “the natural hills and waterways are within reach, and is a place called home”.

在提出战略规划的同时，Gensler 团队亦协助当地政府探讨曲靖下一阶段的远近景规划及实施项目。

630 sq km Services Provided

云南曲靖正展开中心城区汇水区范围内的空间体系规划，同时为推动整区快速发展，当地政府提出对弥足珍贵的‘一江’ （南盘江） ‘一山’ （寥廓山）资源保护开发的有序整理及规划提升。Gensler团队对整个 630平方公里的区域范围提出了战略性规划，包括一系列对环境、本土文化保护与经济发展相互平衡的措施，并致力于与当地专业团队与政府一起实现一个‘ 看得见山，望得见水，留得住乡愁’的宜居宜业城市。

Masterplanning 服务范围总体规划

Strategic use of the natural environment

Existing FARMLAND

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FARMLAND

Open space and viable wildlife habitat

Existing Water system

Continuity of existing villages and farmland

Existing villages

growth boundary at mountain area

Existing mountain

水 RIVER

人 people

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路 ROAD ECO FARMLAND

wetland

theme villages

national park

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02 Project Experience 项目经验

Liaokuo Mountain Master Plan 曲靖寥廓山规划 Qujing, China 中国，曲靖

The Liaokuo Mountain Master Plan provides a strategy for strengthening the cultural identity of an ethnic minority on 370 square kilometers of scenic mountainous land near Qujing, the second largest city in Yunnan Province. The urban solution integrates a health and wellness theme with the cultural and climatic context of the site. The Plan preserves the natural and scenic qualities of the area while stimulating economic growth. The Master Plan also implements unique activities without damaging the delicate existing eco-system. The Master Plan directs a ‘People Use’ rather than a Land Use approach to planning, so as to provide stability for the ethnic Cuan culture. It stimulates economic value through a unique development program synchronized to the topographic and picturesque landscape.

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寥廓山规划项目为云南第二大城市曲靖的370平方公里的景区提供了一个战略总体规划，实现对景区更清晰明确的定位以及强化对本土文化遗产的保护。城市设计战略提出相关主要议题，考虑当地的文化及气候条件创造适于本土的健康设计理念；保护自然生态遗产的前提下作适当旅游开发以刺激区域经济；引入独特的旅游及活动体验，但不破坏现有的生态系统。

370 sq km Services Provided Masterplanning 服务范围总体规划

为了充分尊重及支持爨文化遗产的延续，整体规划将有别于一般传统规划的“土地利用”策略，而是以“人们使用”的更亲合化的尺度出发来考量设计。规划结合当地独特的地景与景观风貌，制定一系列适合的开发项目来最大化当地经济开发与自然风貌保护的平衡。

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02 Project Experience 项目经验

Nanpan River Master Plan 曲靖南盘江规划 Qujing, China 中国，曲靖

The city of Qujing is severely affected by sprawling urban and industrial development; an ecological approach to understanding and protecting the landscape pattern is lacking and connections between the city and the surrounding mountains are poor. Additionally, land use efficiency is low, villages do not exhibit the richness of their traditional culture, and the Nanpan River is not within reach of most community members.

现状的南盘江两侧地带受城市及产业发展严重影响，山水生态格局不突出，城市与山体联系不佳；城无质感，城市发展蔓延,土地使用效率不高，村落纹理及传统文化遗失；江难亲近，滨水空间的无序利用，可视性及可达性不佳。

32 sq km Services Provided Masterplanning 服务范围

本规划为区域明确城市发展边界，复育山水生态体系；创建可持续的生活模式，吸引年轻居民来居住创业，发展经济和创建活力社区；鼓励对周边自然景观的善加利用并促进当地的经济价值提升。

总体规划

The Master Plan provides a clear urban development boundary to implement a vision that restores the natural landscape. The Plan also establishes a sustainable lifestyle to attract young people and entrepreneurs, promote economic development and the creation of vibrant communities, and to utilize the surrounding natural landscape to enhance economic value.

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02 Project Experience 项目经验

Coastal Area New CBD Master Plan 漳州滨海新区新CBD Zhangzhou, China 中国，漳州

The master plan strengthened functional and spatial connection between the various clusters in the bay area and further create a new, powerful urban core to improve the whole region. From the old ‘Land Zhangzhou’ to the new ‘Sea Zhangzhou’, the design team created a cutting-edge, richly diverse, beautiful and passionately vibrant Zhangzhou New Metropolis.

核心区3-健康生态乐活区 Health and Eco-Lifestyle City

本次规划皆在为滨海新区提出一个全新的有集聚力的城市核心，强化整体区域内各个组团的功能结构及空间联系，并为整个滨海地区带来新一轮发展契机。从“陆上漳州”到“海上漳州”，项目团队皆在创建一个前沿、富裕、美丽、有激情的漳州新都市。

280 sq km Services Provided Masterplanning 服务范围总体规划

核心区2-专业人才创智城 Investment and Talent City

轴城市发展

陆上漳州 past

生态核心

海上漳州

城市发展轴

future

核心区1-国际港湾城 The International Harbor Front City

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02 Project Experience 项目经验

Nanjing Twin Bridges Urban Renewal Control Plan Review

7. 创意公园 Creative Park

南京两桥片区城市更新控制性详细规划修审

6. 青年公园 Youth Park 5. 中心公园 Central Park

2. 体育公园 Sports Park 1. 自然公园 Nature Park

Nanjing, China

4. 市民公园 Civic Park

中国，南京

In the review of an existing plan for a complicated site in Nanjing, Gensler developed a vision for the Twin Bridges District that keyed off of an underutilization of the Qin Hai New River. By incorporating a series of riverfront parks into a strategic urban design plan for the District, and developing a series of open space paths to connect the river to transitoriented neighborhoods along the subway line, a series of higher value properties can be developed. Building on the transit capacity of the transportation network and integrating an open space network into the development fabric, the Twin Bridges area can be developed into a complete lifestyle neighborhood that offers a high quality of life for people of all ages. By setting a standard for a green and SMART city, the Twin Bridges District can become a Case Study for other Chinese cities to follow in the implementation of resiliency planning and SMART city technologies.

Gensler | Planning & Urban Design

在对南京现有的综合地块规划的修审中，Gensler为南京双桥片区针对新秦淮河区域使用不充分制定了愿景规划。设计通过结合一系列的滨河公园到区域城设计规划战略，同时开发一系列开放空间道路将河岸与沿地铁公共交通为向导的社区连接起来，因此一系列的更高价值的物业可以获得开发。在交通运输网络的基础上同时将开放空间网络结合到整个项目开发当中，双桥片区将会成为一个完整的风尚生活社区为各年龄阶层的人群提供高质量的生活模式。通过设定一个绿色智能城市准则，利用创新的设计方法, 两桥片区将成为运用弹性规划及智慧城市技术的全国典范先驱城市。

21.4 sq km

3. 风尚公园 Lifestyle Park

Services Provided Control Plan Review 服务范围控制性详细规划修审

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02 Project Experience 项目经验

Dianchi North Concept Master Plan 滇池北官渡文化生态新城 Kuming, China 中国，昆明

Kunming, capital city of Yunnan province in southwest China, has a strategic location that turns it into a potential link between mainland china and Southeast Asia. As a 5-hour Asia aviation circle center and the seventh biggest domestic airport in China, Kunming stands in a strategic role, thanks to the intersection point of its location. This project premise is to foresee and promote a new image for the last piece of virgin land around Kunming’s icon – Dian Chi Lake, through the preservation of its unique natural, cultural, heritage and historical identity, orienting it to a dynamic tourism and economical destination.

Gensler | Planning & Urban Design

昆明是中国西南部云南省的省会，拥有优越的地理位置，使它成为中国大陆和东南亚之间潜在的联系。作为亚洲5小时航空圈的中心和中国第七大的国内机场，昆明屹立在一个战略角色，要归功于其位置的交叉点。这项目的前提是为最后一块围绕昆明的标志 - 滇池的处女地，预见和推广一新形象，通过保存其独特的自然丶文化丶文物和历史特征，定向它成为一个动态的旅游和经济的目的地。

46.6 sq km Services Provided Concept Masterplanning 服务范围概念性总体规划

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02 Project Experience 项目经验

Tianjin Soda Springs Master Plan 天碱春天总体规划 Tianjin, China 中国，天津

The Tianjin Soda Springs Master Plan will bring a wide array of urban amenities to the city of Tianjin. Gensler faced the challenge of designing a mix of indoor and outdoor elements that could withstand this region’s notoriously extreme weather conditions. This new connective hub utilizes pedestrian streetscapes, shopping centers and tourist destinations to create a dynamic yet comfortable end-user experience in any of Tianjin’s four seasons. Careful planning threads public and private spaces together and links to regional transportation and Binhai’s famous riverfront; all key strategies in the district’s talent attraction strategy.

Gensler | Planning & Urban Design

天碱春天总体规划将为天津市带来大量城市配套设施。Gensler面临的挑战是室内和室外元素的组合设计须能够应对该地区的极端天气。这个新建联系枢纽运用人行街景、购物中心和旅游胜地等元素为终端用户打造天津地区一年四季都充满活力的舒适体验。精心设计的规划方案将公共和私人空间贯穿起来并与区域交通以及滨海著名的水景相连，所有这些都是区域人才引进的重要战略。

237 ha. Services Provided Masterplanning Urban Design Concept Architecture 服务范围总体规划城市设计概念建筑设计

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02 Project Experience 项目经验

Renmin University East Campus Master Plan 人民大学东校区总体规划 Beijing, China 中国，北京

This masterplanning competition gave Gensler the unique opportunity to design a 120-hectare plot that will become a new campus for Renmin University, one of China’s most prestigious academic institutions. The design seeks to create a dynamic learning environment that is both rigorous and intense, yet provides spaces for contemplation and meditation for its 30,000-person community. Serving as the connective backbone for the campus is a central greenway with water features and accentuated with ginko trees.

Gensler受邀参与中国最著名的学术机构之一—中国人民大学新校区120公顷地块的总体规划方案竞赛。设计旨在创建一处严谨、紧张有序而充满活力的学习环境，同时为3万师生提供思考与冥想的空间。总体规划的主轴是一个四面被银杏林包围的中央人工湖。

121.4 ha Services Provided Masterplanning Concept Architecture 服务范围

这处中央景观具有社交场地功能，能够促进师生间的互动。同时该处景观也作为校园建筑灰水再循环方案的一个组成部分。

总体规划概念建筑设计

This central landscape feature serves as a social, green public corridor and facilitates spontaneous interactions between staff and students. It also serves as an integral component of a gray-water recycling program for campus buildings.

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How do we retain, protect and enhance the qualities of a unique culture`s habitat & lifestyle while honoring the larger communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s development ambitions?

Yunnan Qujing Liaokuo Mountain Area Master Plan

Yunnan Cuan Inspired The Master Plan provides a strategy that strengthens the cultural identity, local lifestyle, and building vernacular characteristic of the ethnic Cuan minority.

370 km2

The site is 370 km2 of scenic, mountainous land located near Qujing, the second largest city in Yunnan Province, China.

times the size of Manhanttan

Yunnan Qujing Liaokuo Mountain Area Master Plan| Qujing, China

村

田

VILLAGE

FARMLAND

水 RIVER

人 people

Yunnan Qujing Liaokuo Mountain Area Master Plan| Qujing, China

路 ROAD

1 PROMOTE NOT DILUTE Integrate a Health and Wellness theme with the culture and climate

Yunnan Qujing Liaokuo Mountain Area Master Plan| Qujing, China

Cuan Culture

+ Healthy Eating Style

Yunnan Qujing Liaokuo Mountain Area Master Plan| Qujing, China

Local Climate

+ Herbal Farming

Site feature

+ Unique landscape

2 Protect NOT exploit preserve the natural and scenic qualities while stimulating economic growth

Farming Land Protecting Area Limited Development Area No Development Area

Yunnan Qujing Liaokuo Mountain Area Master Plan| Qujing, China

Strategic use of the natural environment

Existing FARMLAND

Open space and viable wildlife habitat

Existing Water system

ECO FARMLAND

Yunnan Qujing Liaokuo Mountain Area Master Plan| Qujing, China

Continuity of existing villages and farmland

Existing villages

wetland

growth boundary at mountain area

Existing mountain

theme villages

national park

Hot Spring Resort

Eco-Farming Experience

Villages

Eco-Farming

BENEFIT FROM NOT

IMPACT UPON

Implement unique activities without damaging the delicate eco system.

Bird Watch Discovery Boardwalk

Yunnan Qujing Liaokuo Mountain Area Master Plan| Qujing, China

Boat Exploration

Wetland Experience

Creativity Workshop

health & wellness clusters

Yunnan Qujing Liaokuo Mountain Area Master Plan| Qujing, China

Tourism & eco-resorts at the edges

Medical University and knowledge communities

Alternative to the traditional Land Use approach, the Master Plan is designed for People Use to underpin the Cuan culture. The unique development program synchronizes with the topographic and picturesque landscape to promote economic value.

Yunnan Qujing Liaokuo Mountain Area Master Plan| Qujing, China

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