In the face of increasingly serious resource and environmental challenges the world has
already accepted low-carbon development as the main way forward for future city construction.
Chinese cities have encountered many problems during their development including land
constraints energy shortages traffic congestion and air pollution. For this reason the
national meeting of the Central Work Conference on Urbanization made the strategic decision to
take a new approach to urbanization and indicated that in future the key features of
urbanization in China will be low-carbon development and harmony between the environment and
resources. This book discusses the low-carbon city as the new pattern of Chinese urbanization.
This represents a major change and takes intensive land use intelligent green and low carbon
as its key words. Low carbon will become an important future development direction for Chinese
urbanization development.In the twenty-first Century in response to the global climate change
countries have started a wave of low-carbon city construction. But in China there are still
many disputes and misunderstandings surrounding the issue. Due to a lack of research
low-carbon city construction in China is still in the early stages and while there have been
successes there have also been failures. There are complex and diverse challenges in applying
low-carbon development methods in the context of today's Chinese cities. The construction of
low-carbon cities requires efficient government the technological innovation of enterprises
and professional scholars but also efforts on the part of the public to change their daily
activities.Based on the above considerations the collection brings together experts from urban
planning and design clean-energy systems low-carbon transportation new types of city
infrastructure and smart cities etc. in the hope of forming some solutions for Chinese
low-carbon city development.
