Experience of the Low-carbon Spatial Strategies in Mega-cities:In Reference to London, Tokyo and New York
Bai Dong
Abstract：Cities have become the core roles in coping with climate change. Mega-cities, in particular, play leading roles for this cause. In recent years, almost all the mega-cities around the world have been taking actions to deal with climate change. In this paper, London, Tokyo and New York, through a regional point of view, have been examined in their experiences mitigating the process of climate change and constructing low-carbon cities through spatial planning. This paper comes to the perspective that the major characters of these three mega-cities in regard to develop a low-carbon environment are as follows: to establish public transport networks mainly formed with rail transportation, to facilitate a multi-level low-carbon strategy, to concentrate more on how to reduce the emission in the fields of energy, construction and transportation, to promote the application of new planning approaches such as scenario analysis, and to set up policies and mechanisms focusing on the inter-department coordination. Also, suggestions have been made in the paper from different aspects of spatial strategy, recent implementation, governmental administration as well as planning systems for the low carbon development of China’s mega-cities.
Keywords：mega-citylow-carbon cityspatial planning
Publication Date：2013-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 13-17 )