Abstract

Ghost city phenomenon along China's high-speed railway grid

Highlights

  • The authors of this paper scrutinised the urban high-speed railway (HSR) planning in China and realised that until March 2017, 91 cities of 169 key territory-level cities entailing an HSR station are expected or erected to be fresh HSR cities

  • A fresh urbanism era appears in China with the development of high-speed railway (HSR)

  • This study has successfully evaluated China’s HSR urbanism development

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Summary

Introduction

The authors of this paper scrutinised the urban high-speed railway (HSR) planning in China and realised that until March 2017, 91 cities of 169 key territory-level cities entailing an HSR station are expected or erected to be fresh HSR cities. In accordance with a classification done by a private exploration company identified as Standard Research Institute (2016), about 50 cities have been considered as ‘ghost city’ Upon situating these 50 cities on the map of China (Figure 1), it is evident that 22 cities are located in the HSR lines besides having HSR stops, and almost all cities have their HSR cities or HRS zones. It is logic to come up with an apt definition of the ‘phenomenon of ghost city’ based on the real estate price in ‘new HSR cities’ against the average price within the ‘whole city in administration definition’. The present paper offers an analysis of the standard housing price in 22 HSR ghost cities and a clarification of the prices within the current HSR district as well as the entire city. The two cities both lack mature up-to-date infrastructures in the old region

Literature review of HSR development in other countries
The scale of urban HSR
Urban planning of the HSR city
The homogeneous industry mode
Siphon effect
Accessibility from the old city
Connecting to the whole HSR network
Findings
Conclusions

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