Planning for sustainable inner city regeneration in China

In China, inner city regeneration will be a major challenge in the future. Most cities lack effective planning and management tools for the complicated problems in the inner city. This paper focuses on the planning practice for the inner city regeneration of Baise. This is an area with vibrant micro economic activities in residential buildings with insufficient infrastructure and poor living conditions. Within the framework of a Sino-German cooperation project, the planning team developed a comprehensive regeneration plan for the inner city. The overall concept aims at a sustainable and process-oriented regeneration. The plan emphasises strategies such as integrating the improvement of residents' living conditions with the conservation of the inner city historical image, improving public space and infrastructure, introducing public participation as well as adopting area-specific regeneration solutions. Baise is a case study for a change of the existing urban planning system to a more sustainable inner city regeneration.