The Influence Of Great City Event On Urban Spatial Structure

In the backdrop of economic globalization, the great city event has become thepower tools to achieve strategic objectives for each city to raise the urbancompetitiveness. In a growing number of city governments trying to achieve theirdevelopment goals through the city event, it is a worth-exploring question how tounderstand "City event" and how to turn the use of "event" to achieve the urbandevelopment goal.The urban spatial structure influenced by the city's socio-economic activities,present the continued dynamic process, which dynamic mechanism of its internalrestructuring is from the government, market, social and other factors.The dissertation's research based on the special nature of the political system ofChinese cities, takes "the government forces" as the most important factor affectingthe restructuring of urban spatial structure, and takes "the great city event" led tofurther by government as a very typical government forces. In the process of greatcity event, the government not only adopted policies to control public financialinvestment affecting the city event, but also by directly or indirectly affect therestructuring of urban spatial structure by the representatives of local government ofinterest groups directly involved in the event, through the infrastructure supporting,urban planning, urban management and policy supply.In order to host a "successful, splendid, unforgettable" Shanghai World Expo, theShanghai government must invest the most extensive government resources andmobilize all the forces of society in next five year-time. It turns out to be rare typicalcases, because the government will be focusing on the Shanghai World Expo in aspecific period of time, for an in-depth analysis of urban planning and urbanmanagement.Based on the Shanghai World Expo, the dissertation study the influence of thegovernment-led great city event on urban spatial structure, and analysis itscharacteristic to make suggestions, researching for the government action to exertinfluence urban spatial structure of the mechanisms and processes through the Exposite location, transport construction, site planning and site post-use, etc.