International Competition for Implementation-Oriented Urban Design of the Core Area of Hangzhou Linping Digital & Smart City

Registration Deadline: May 22, 2024; Submission Deadline: May 28, 2024 What is Hangzhou East New Center?The urban growth of Hangzhou Metropolitan Area has been moving from the "West Lake Era" (West Lake centered development) to the "Qiantang River Era" (River-supporting development), the era of technology and innovation corridor, and now towards the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta. The city is opening up a new development pattern facing the world and the future. On the basis of the Hangzhou Eastern Intelligent Manufacturing Corridor, the Hangzhou Municipal Government further proposed the strategic concept of "One Core and Two Wings" to integrate spatial resources in the eastern part of the city. According to the concept, the Linping Digital & Smart City will be included in the key development sectors of Hangzhou city as a municipal strategy. Linping will gather efforts to build the Hangzhou East New Center, with Linping Digital & Smart City as the core area, and undertake the important task of integrating the development of Hangzhou with Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta. With this opportunity, we shall explore an urban spatial model for the future.What is Linping Digital & Smart City? Industry 4.0, which comes along with the digital economy, has stimulated the new quality productive forces with the help of advanced technologies such as big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence, promoting the transformation and upgrading of the global economy, while comprehensively driving the revolution of cities. The city of the future is bound to develop in a more intelligent, efficient and sustainable way, with adaptive, flexible and open urban spaces that are capable of supporting the latest trend of industries, lifestyles, consumption and entertainment. Relying on the new quality productive forces, Linping Digital & Smart City will take the lead in the development of the future industries, create a cutting-edge urban structure where industries, people and city are highly integrated, and fulfill the new mission of "realizing city-wide digitalization".In order to execute the important instruction of "crafting urban design with meticulous care", to demonstrate Linping's responsibility in the new era and with the ambition of creating a true "Digital and Smart City",  is now officially launched. The objective of this competition is to gather ideas from international perspectives and draw from urban development experiences both in China and abroad. We are looking for innovative urban design proposals to improve the urban capacity of Linping Digital & Smart City, with the ultimate goal of creating the first fully digitalized and smart city in China.This competition is hosted by Hangzhou Linping New City Development and Construction Management Committee, advised by Hangzhou Bureau of Planning and Natural Resources Linping Branch, organized by Hangzhou Linping Urban Construction Group Co., Ltd., and co-organized by Position Architecture Co., Ltd, Shenzhen. Read the full post on Bustler

International Competition for Implementation-Oriented Urban Design of the Core Area of Hangzhou Linping Digital & Smart City

Registration Deadline: May 22, 2024; Submission Deadline: May 28, 2024

What is Hangzhou East New Center?

The urban growth of Hangzhou Metropolitan Area has been moving from the "West Lake Era" (West Lake centered development) to the "Qiantang River Era" (River-supporting development), the era of technology and innovation corridor, and now towards the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta. The city is opening up a new development pattern facing the world and the future. On the basis of the Hangzhou Eastern Intelligent Manufacturing Corridor, the Hangzhou Municipal Government further proposed the strategic concept of "One Core and Two Wings" to integrate spatial resources in the eastern part of the city. According to the concept, the Linping Digital & Smart City will be included in the key development sectors of Hangzhou city as a municipal strategy. Linping will gather efforts to build the Hangzhou East New Center, with Linping Digital & Smart City as the core areaand undertake the important task of integrating the development of Hangzhou with Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta. With this opportunity, we shall explore an urban spatial model for the future.

What is Linping Digital & Smart City?

Industry 4.0, which comes along with the digital economy, has stimulated the new quality productive forces with the help of advanced technologies such as big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence, promoting the transformation and upgrading of the global economy, while comprehensively driving the revolution of cities. The city of the future is bound to develop in a more intelligent, efficient and sustainable way, with adaptive, flexible and open urban spaces that are capable of supporting the latest trend of industries, lifestyles, consumption and entertainment. Relying on the new quality productive forces, Linping Digital & Smart City will take the lead in the development of the future industries, create a cutting-edge urban structure where industries, people and city are highly integrated, and fulfill the new mission of "realizing city-wide digitalization".

In order to execute the important instruction of "crafting urban design with meticulous care", to demonstrate Linping's responsibility in the new era and with the ambition of creating a true "Digital and Smart City",  is now officially launched. The objective of this competition is to gather ideas from international perspectives and draw from urban development experiences both in China and abroad. We are looking for innovative urban design proposals to improve the urban capacity of Linping Digital & Smart City, with the ultimate goal of creating the first fully digitalized and smart city in China.

This competition is hosted by Hangzhou Linping New City Development and Construction Management Committee, advised by Hangzhou Bureau of Planning and Natural Resources Linping Branch, organized by Hangzhou Linping Urban Construction Group Co., Ltd., and co-organized by Position Architecture Co., Ltd, Shenzhen.

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