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| INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT LOCATION AND PLANNING——A Case Study of New White Clouds Airport in Guangzhou |
| YAO Shimou1, CHEN Cai-hong1,2,3, WANG Shu-guo1,3, CUI Xu1,3, CHEN Zhen-guang4 |
1. Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, CAS, Nanjing 210008, China;
2. College of Public Administration, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China;
3. Graduate School, CAS, Beijing 100039, China;
4. Institute of Urban Planning and Environment Management, Hongkong, China |
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Abstract International airport is an important symbol of a modernized metropolis. Many metropolises are planning to construct international airports. Especially in the Super Urban Agglomeration of China and the Dense City and Town Areas, for example, the Pearl River delta Urban Agglomeration. International airport has the modernized airdrome facility and the international space location superiority, which adapts to the national economic scale. She is one of the most important symbols of national modernization, also is the most concrete manifestation of spatial characteristics for a modernized international metropolis. The international airport is important aviation hinge for the world economics and society development highly and the industrialization society's supporting network, and also is the important gathering center and junction in some important countries and large areas with the whole globe economic integration. Under the background of the economic globalization, the new characteristics of industrialization, urbanization and internationalization in our country increasingly reveal. Along with the expansion of international market, between countries the flowing amount of passengers, goods and information increases continually. Between the cities economic function changes from the vertical division of labor into the level division of labor primarily, which has accelerated construction and expansion of the international airport. For recent 10 years besides international airports in Beijing and Shanghai our country has constructed and expanded White Clouds Airport in Guangzhou, Taoxian Airport in Shenyang, Lukou Airport in Nanjing and Xiaoshan airport in Hangzhou and so on, which is precisely our positive effect and the long term demand that adapt to the globalization development tendency and the internationalization. This paper takes New White Clouds Airport in Guangzhou as an example to discuss the developing background, location selection, planning principle, modernized facilities of international airport and the interaction between international airports and the master planning of metropolis, and tries to arouse the interests in this field. As a complex system, the urban transportation system has been analyzed, and then from a new viewpoint an image model of urban system structure is introduced, and from the viewpoint of a complex system the basic characteristics, such as objectiveness, incidence, environment and dynamic ability, have been discussed.
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Received: 08 August 2004
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2006, Vol. 21 
