The greater Pearl River Delta (PRD) as a global city region its shape and development

Author

Bie, Jiangbo ; De Jong, Martin ; Tang, Jie

Author_Institution

Shenzhen Grad. Sch., Urban Planning & Economic & Manage. Dept., Harbin Inst. of Technol., Shenzhen, China

fYear

2010

fDate

11-13 Nov. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The emergence and growth of global city-regions (GCRs) or mega-city region (MCRs) around the world has become an important phenomenon. In China´s Pearl River Delta, the area in the very South-East which incorporates Hong Kong and Guangzhou has seen 30 years of extremely rapid economic growth and urbanization, turning the many agglomerations into one super-large urbanized zone, a real MCR. Bit the PRD, in which the integration of Hongkong and Shenzhen is the core trend, is still facing a great many challenges in various aspects. The greater PRD should take many measures to become a GCR with enough competitive strength to match that of tier 1 global cities in the world.

Keywords

globalisation; socio-economic effects; town and country planning; China; Hongkong; Pearl river delta; Shenzhen; global city region emergence; mega city region; rapid economic growth; super-large urbanized zone; urbanization; Cities and towns; Economics; Government; Industries; Manufacturing; Rivers; Technological innovation; Pearl River Delta (PRD); competitive strength; global city-regions (GCRs); mega-city region (MCRs); regional integration; transport infrastructure networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Infrastructure Systems and Services: Next Generation Infrastructure Systems for Eco-Cities (INFRA), 2010 Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shenzhen

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8477-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INFRA.2010.5679204

Filename

5679204