TY - JOUR
T1 - The node-place analysis on the "hubtropolis" urban form
T2 - The case of Shanghai Hongqiao air-rail hub
AU - Chen, Xueming
AU - Lin, Lin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2015/10/1
Y1 - 2015/10/1
N2 - This paper uses the Shanghai Hongqiao Integrated Transportation Hub ("the Hongqiao Hub") as an empirical case to conduct a preliminary node (transportation functional value) and place (urban functional value) analysis. The Hongqiao Hub is the strategic node not only for the Hongqiao Business District ("the Hongqiao Hubtropolis"), but also for the western Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, and the rest of Yangtze River Delta Region and beyond. This newly emerging "hubtropolis" is a brand new urban form integrating air, rail and other transportation modes as well as urban functions, which is more complicated than single-mode "aerotropolis" urban form in terms of both node functions and place functions. The existing Hongqiao Hub remains as the unbalanced node case, but will become more balanced after the complete construction of the Hongqiao Business District. This study also finds that, even though Bertolini's node-place model provides an important tool, its operationalisation remains a huge challenge.
AB - This paper uses the Shanghai Hongqiao Integrated Transportation Hub ("the Hongqiao Hub") as an empirical case to conduct a preliminary node (transportation functional value) and place (urban functional value) analysis. The Hongqiao Hub is the strategic node not only for the Hongqiao Business District ("the Hongqiao Hubtropolis"), but also for the western Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, and the rest of Yangtze River Delta Region and beyond. This newly emerging "hubtropolis" is a brand new urban form integrating air, rail and other transportation modes as well as urban functions, which is more complicated than single-mode "aerotropolis" urban form in terms of both node functions and place functions. The existing Hongqiao Hub remains as the unbalanced node case, but will become more balanced after the complete construction of the Hongqiao Business District. This study also finds that, even though Bertolini's node-place model provides an important tool, its operationalisation remains a huge challenge.
KW - Hubtropolis
KW - Node-place model
KW - Shanghai Hongqiao integrated transportation hub
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84934958001&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.habitatint.2015.06.013
DO - 10.1016/j.habitatint.2015.06.013
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84934958001
SN - 0197-3975
VL - 49
SP - 445
EP - 453
JO - Habitat International
JF - Habitat International
ER -
