Identifying Resettlement Communities' Urban Regeneration Opportunity Through GIS-based Spatial Analysis in Suzhou Metropolitan Area

Jinliu Chen; Paola Pellegrini; Geng Ma

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Identifying Resettlement Communities' Urban Regeneration Opportunity Through GIS-based Spatial Analysis in Suzhou Metropolitan Area

Jinliu Chen, Paola Pellegrini, Geng Ma

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Urban regeneration is mentioned for the first time in the Chinese 14th five-year plan, and its main content is the old communities built before the year 2000. Due to the different construction standards for different communities, the old communities in need of transformation in the current city are referred to as resettlement communities. The existing urban regeneration guidelines and design intervention methods in China are at three approaches: demolition, reconstruction, and retention. There are still disputes on how to guide the regeneration of resettlement areas in different urban conditions effectively. We try to introduce the method of spatial analysis using GIS to evaluate the existing 176 resettlement communities we found in Suzhou Metropolitan Area. We classified the resettlement communities into four categories upon multiple factors, which could be assessed using the densification concept's index weight. According to the matching degree of overall property value and construction intensity, and put forward relevant regeneration strategies. At the same time, the feasibility assessment is verified in combination with the comprehensive regeneration plan from the government in recent years. The results show the current government's reconstruction focuses on low-density and below the medium housing prize communities, which is also the lowest grade in the previous assessment. We encourage these communities could be regenerated by reconstruction, demolition, and reconstruction simultaneously, gradually increasing the density and accessibility and enhancing public services. The study also attempts to discuss the corresponding regeneration strategies for the other three types of resettlement areas. This research of resettlement communities in the Suzhou Metropolitan area can further promote urban regeneration policies and guidelines for sustainable design intervention.

Published in	Urban and Regional Planning (Volume 6, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.urp.20210604.15
Page(s)	135-146
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GIS-based Spatial Analysis, Densification, Sustainable Regeneration, Resettlement Community

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Jinliu Chen

School of Science & Engineering, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England
Paola Pellegrini

School of Design, Xi'an Jiaotong - Liverpool University, Suzhou, China
Geng Ma

School of Science & Engineering, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England

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