ABSTRACT
The emergence of cities is a sign that human society has moved toward more maturity and civilization, and also is an advanced form of human social life. Since China’s reform and opening up, many Chinese cities have begun building new areas and new city districts to relieve population explosion, land shortage, traffic congestion and environmental pollution in the older sections of the cities. According to the China Statistical Yearbook of 2013, China’s urban built-up area, that is the area of an urbanized region being smaller than the area of administrative division, increased from 12856 square kilometers in 1990 to 45566 square kilometers in 2012, which equals a 354% of the increase. It’s almost a sidelight about an expanding China with an active building market that there are 330063 national first-grade registered architects working in China.
