About Urban Planning
Urban planning is a technical and political process concerned with the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks.
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China has restricted smaller cities in the country from building " super high-rise buildings" as part of a larger bid to crackdown on vanity projects.
Cities with populations of less than three million people will be restricted from building skyscrapers taller than 150 metres (492 ft).
Those with populations larger than that will be restricted from buildings taller than 250 metres.
There is already an existing ban on buildings taller than 500 metres.
China is home to some of The World 's highest buildings - including the 632m Shanghai Tower and the 599. 1m Ping An Finance Centre in Shenzhen.
Local reports say that while skyscrapers may be needed in crowded cities like Shanghai and Shenzhen, there is no shortage of land in other cities, adding that those had been built mostly for vanity reasons.
Earlier this year, hundreds of people were showing fleeing when a 350 metre landmark Skyscraper -
China has increasingly been cracking down on costly vanity projects, criticising local developers obsession with constructing eye-catching buildings.
Earlier this year the country issued a ban on " ugly architecture".
" We're in a stage where people are too impetuous and anxious to produce something that can actually go down in history, " Zhang Shangwu, deputy head of Tongji University 's College of Architecture and Urban Planning had earlier told The South China Morning Post.
" Every building aims to be a landmark, and the developers and city planners try to achieve this goal by going extreme in novelty and strangeness. "
In a joint statement issued on Tuesday, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural development and the Ministry of Emergency Management clarified that special exemptions would have to be sought if a city with an urban population of less than three million wanted to build a Skyscraper higher than 150 metres.
However, They would not under any circumstances be able to build a building higher than 250 metres.
Similarly, cities with an urban population of over three million could under certain circumstances apply to build a Skyscraper taller than 250 metres, but with a hard ban on buildings over 500m.
Those who approve projects that violate these new rules will held to " lifelong accountability" The Statement added.
The Announcement was mostly met with approval on Chinese Social Media site Weibo, with many stating that the super-high skyscrapers were " not needed. . They 're just gimmicky".
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