Shenliwei Regional City Centre Yangtze River Regeneration

 

International first prize winning Master Plan and Urban Design concepts for a new Regional City Centre, Pukou, on the north bank of the Yangtze River, Nanjing.

 

The Master Plan study considered locational advantages and disadvantages to establish key roles and functions for this new regional centre. This helped determine the relationship between Pukou Central Area and its peripheral areas of influence. International benchmarking helped clarify functional structure, land use, distribution and density.

 

The spatial form of the new city district was sensitively informed by local context, responding to specific site conditions and oportunities, providing a distinctive local identity and unique relationship between landscape, water and new development. The design emerged organically, naturally divided by the Yangtze, Shengli and Pearl Rivers and major new road and rail infrastructure.   

The Regional Centre will serve an estimated population of 1.5 million people. Core activities optimise waterfrontages and include ecological wetland park, tourism, recreation, multi-media park, regional scale commercual centre and administrative hub, and a sports "belt". Peripheral areas include housing clusters each distinguished by their own neighbourhood community and commercial facilities. 

 

Site Area: 12.97 sqkm.

Client: Nanjing Planning Bureau.