| CBD Core Business Area Takes Shape |
| 5/10/2006 1:1:0 Beijing CBD |
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Global CBDs Boasting Prosperous Business Area
The flourishing of CBD has already turned into a global trend, with Manhattan in the US, La Defense in France, Shinjuku in Tokyo, Central in Hongkong and the booming CBD in Beijing as the internationally renowned central business districts (CBDs). Against the strong economic backup, CBD has made a necessity in the development of modern international metropolises.
Mention to the most renowned CBD in the world, Manhattan is undoubtedly listed as the top one and also the representative with its large scale, intensive business opportunities and complex functions. Located at downtown New York City, Manhattan covers a total area of 58km2, taking up 70% of NYC's overall area, and the total population reaches 1.5 million. The area is home to diversified industries including finance, insurance, business, entertainment and recreation, ranking as the area with highest employment density in the world.
La Defense is the core business area of Paris. The programmed area is 750 hectares with 250 hectares for preliminary development, and as of today there has completed 2.5 million square meters of business office buildings. La Defense concentrated with renowned enterprises in France, boasting the largest business center in Europe and attached residence buildings capable to house 40,000 people. The area is also known as a great tourist destination with dainty environment and complete facilities. Located at the west end of Paris?axis, La Defense is set to make the Manhattan in northwestern Paris with the strong development momentum.
Montreal is the No.1 cosmopolitan in Canada and also the core of the country's economic development. Located in Quebec Province, Montreal covers an area of 3,500km2 with a population of 4,000,000. Since its hosting the 1967?World Expo, Montreal has gained more fame over the world, honoured as the Paris in America. Montreal's underground city is the world's renowned international business street.
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As a matter of fact, the earliest CBD in the world refers to a core area occupied with department stores, office buildings and recreation facilities etc, which has seen people-related business and recreation boom at the very beginning. Along with the changing of economic activities, and developed countries?global industry adjustments, CBD has also changed with the economic development, from a city's business center to a business center then to a comprehensive high tempo economic center.
Nowadays, CBD is still experiencing changes. CBDs in foreign countries are turning stronger and stronger in complexity, and care for both people's spiritual needs and the ecological environment, to realize the perfect balance between business and humanities ultimately.
CBD Needs No Office beyond 8 Hours
The conventional architectures in CBD sees within stiff and grim, which with little greening or open space or humanities aroma. CBD is not supposed to care only about arcumstance of hardware but also the construction of software, which does not mean simple residence but maximization of business value. If CBD is only a business center, it will be quite difficult to retain a sustainable, steady and rapid development.
Experts hold in unanimity that it is feasible to increase a certain proportion of residence areas and business recreation areas in Beijing's CBD. Expert from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences is quoted as saying that it goes along with the international development trend to increase the proportion of residence areas and business recreation areas within CBDs.
It can help CBD avoid turning into Read City?and Bark City?at night to carry out integrated business and office and increase the proportion of residence areas, and more people in CBD will produce more fun and vitality. Additionally it will be no obvious contrast on CBD between daytime and night-time. Besides, it can ease the traffic jams caused by people coming to work from faraway, increase the use efficiency of interior public facilities and boom the interior service industry to have CBD employees living nearby.
Experts are advocating to build CBD into a business concept focusing on central business and city functions, add more functions to CBD, forging an area centered on the city and thus driving the regional economic development.
From such a perspective, in the programming of CBD it has to take into consideration not only issues inside but also things outside, not only the improvement of hardware but also the accessory software, not only the workers?requirements but also the residents?needs, not only the current status but also the future. In summary, it has to build a positive circle with the needs of workers and residents, and also convenient solutions to office, life, transportation, shopping, reception and recreation ect.
CBD To Pave Business Pedestrian Street with Lowest Tempo
Over years?development, CBD has become the forefront speaker for Beijing's business nowadays, highly concentrated with top-grade office buildings, top-class hotels and most luxurious apartments, as well as a group of white-collars shuttling within top-grade office buildings but under the quick working tempo and huge pressures. Everybody has realized the business value of CBD while none has realized the high tempo life and highly-pressured work undertaken by those people living inside. Nobody pays attention to their experience or work feelings. Actually they need more the relaxation brought by playing balls, climbing mountains and shopping.
While the business value of CBD is being sharpened towards the maximum, there should be more humanities concern to the people inside, more repose space for the mind and more possibilities for them to create greater value. Only an open, melting CBD is an integral CBD. Fortunately, the business pedestrian street as the core of CBD has taken shape as of today.
Located at the center of Guomao (CWTC) Business Area and centered around the four-hectare history-related park, the No.2 Road of the business center under construction goes all the way west through from Central Park, the north side road of Dongdaqiao and Global Trade to reach East Third ring Road, while to the west through Beijing Fortune Plaza to reach Dongsanhuan Road. The street is occupied with numerous business stores of the many renowned buildings in the core CBD, creating the most intensive business, consumption and entertainment area within the CBD. Meanwhile, the intercrossing point of the No.2 Road of business center running from east to west and the history-related pedestrian street going from south to north is the history-related park. This is the real place to shape the most prosperous Wolden cross?area of humanities and business core within the CBD, presenting immeasurable potential.
The projects under construction around the Wolden cross?are also positioned towards the umanities landmark of CBD? Projects are connected by corridors and artworks are placed inside to provide artistic enjoyment for the people passing through. The whole area is totally open, and people passing by can also come into the corridors for visit and enjoyment.
Comprehensive quality is playing a more and more important role for the maturing CBD, while the measurement standard for such comprehensive quality is the relationship and dependence between man and buildings themselves, and dynamic public service area has become quite important.
The fashion, unique business stores laying out on the business street with the lowest tempo within the CBD will strongly attract the working people inside. And the large-scale green ecological humanities park on the recreation business street provides a space for the white-collars inside beyond work where their minds can relax and take a rest.
The recreation business street and the humanities pedestrian street are to build the most spacious relaxation platform within the CBD, where the complete transportation and convenient network various service facilities give out care and concern towards all people in the CBD.
The business pedestrian street after completion will help the CBD avoid all kinds of disadvantages brought by the simplified business function. The business street gives special importance to the construction of ecological environment and cultural functions, and realizes the integration of other functions, for example, culture, science and technology, entertainment and residence when focusing on the organic integration between cultural and business facilities, forging a highly efficient humanities business environment for the people. The CBD core in the future will make a business humanities central area full of vitality for day and night, and its potential for development is set to win more and more rational and wise concern.
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