Abstract
A fresh urbanism era appears in China with the development of high-speed railway (HSR). Voluminous numbers of local governments are designing and erecting novel cities oriented to the HSR stations with the objective of gaining benefits from the HSR system. Nevertheless, a huge number of these freshly erected districts or cities entail a tremendously high vacancy rate, thereby resulting in 'ghost cities'. The present paper commences with an outline of the China's urban HSR growth and the phenomena of ghost cities. After a literature review on worldwide urban HSR development, the reasons behind the 'ghost city phenomenon' in China are analysed. In the end, the study is concluded by proposing several suggestions for HSR development.
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
Summary
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
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