- Thoughts over Sustainable Urban Rgeneration on the Urban Fringe in Transformation    2637 kb by    Chengcheng, Liu | vcbd62cc@yahoo.com.cn    Short Outline Tianjin North New Urban is the fringe of urban center and is facing many environmental problems with its rising GDP. In order to ensure sustainable urban rgeneration of the North New Urban, the connections between the environment, energy, safety, education, innovation, economy, culture and urban development must be addressed. Abstract The Urban Fringe is the transition belt from the urban environment to rural areas; is the blurredregion with the change of the urban scale, environment, and Urban-Rural evolvement; is the complex and metabolic area in Urban-Rural construction. Tianjin North New Urban is the fringe of urban center. At present, the area is running to the swart posture. The environmental problems have become increasingly prominent with the upborne GDP. It is badly effecting the urban sustainable development. In order to the North New Urban will change from the environmental pollution area to the low-carbon eco-city. We need to deal with the connections among the environment, energy, safety, education, innovation, economy, culture and the urban development, as the important issue of sustainable urban rgeneration. The paper analyzes three being matters in North New Urban. The first is extensive consumption of urban land use. The second is lag on urban infrastructure and public service facilities. The third is the lowly industry, the dishevelled contaminative corporations. Design links with the environment points that countermeasures include five parts in order to solve these matters. The first, the space control avoids the land waste. The second, the green infrastructure design preserves the ecological resources. The third, the comfortable housing project plan of villages in city is replying the own urbanization problem. The fourth, green economy lead to a prosperous future economy consistent with the needs of the resource-saving and environmentally friendly society called for by the Government of China. The fifth, thoughts over TOD in North New Urban abound in the integrate function. Keywords The Urban Fringe in Transformation Sustainable Urban Rgeneration Case Study presented on the ISOCARP Congress 2010: Sustainable City - Developing World   Click to open the full paper as pdf document   Click to send an email to the author(s) of this paper