Project type: Professional, consulting for local government

Location: Bijie, Guizhou, China

Year: 2025

Scale: Approx. 11.19 sq km

My Role: Project lead

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The area is located within an intensively built-up area of Bijie, historically shaped by industrial production and logistics functions. As the city continues its eastward expansion, the corridor has become a key spatial interface between existing industrial districts and emerging urban development areas, carrying growing pressure for transformation.

The area faces multiple overlapping constraints: legacy industrial pollution, outdated industrial facilities embedded within residential and urban fabrics, and a structural tension between industrial relocation and local fiscal dependence on manufacturing tax revenue. Large-scale clearance was neither economically nor institutionally feasible, while uncontrolled redevelopment risked exacerbating environmental and social conflicts.

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The project developed a corridor-based development strategy that prioritized phased transformation over abrupt replacement. Key actions included identifying zones suitable for gradual industrial upgrading versus relocation, introducing development sequencing aligned with fiscal capacity, and restructuring land-use intensity and functions to accommodate both ongoing production and urban expansion. Environmental remediation, traffic reorganization, and functional buffering were integrated as enabling conditions rather than afterthoughts.

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Results of development assessment

The strategy provides a pragmatic framework for managing urban growth within constrained, polluted, and fiscally sensitive industrial areas. It demonstrates how planning can mediate between industrial continuity, environmental improvement, and spatial expansion, offering a transferable approach for cities undergoing structural transition under limited redevelopment flexibility.