In the process of globalisation, urban regeneration has long been seen as playing an active role in promoting local economy. However, in recent years, the capital globalisation process slows down significantly and sinks into a crisis. As a result, the crisis of globalisation changes the relationship between urban regeneration and local economy. Against this backdrop, many western scholars begin to doubt urban regeneration’s role in promoting local economy. Starting from an outline of the current debate around the role urban regeneration plays in local economy, this paper analyses the transformation of urban regeneration in the context of globalisation crisis, discusses the political economic reasons behind the transformation. It argues that the lobalisation crisis vastly changes the value and judging criteria of urban regeneration. Whether it can remake the city image or promote land value is no longer the key criterion of the success of an urban regeneration project. Urban regeneration plays a much more complicated role in local economic and social development in the crisis of globalisation. On this basis, this paper provides suggestions on how urban regeneration can be better understood and governed in China in the crisis.

The term “urban restructuring” has been prevailed across the globe and has influenced China’s urban theory and practice at large. This research introduces the concept and connotation of urban restructuring and reviews research related to urban restructuring in Europe, America and China since 1970s. The neoliberal turns in Europe and America and socialist market economic transition serve as the policy backdrops. It summarizes, analyzes and comments research related to urban spatial transformation and government transition, the two main focuses uncovering urban restructuring route, and presents up-to-date literatures to contribute to future research.

The New Urbanism Movement in the United States, which emerged in the 1980s, created an idea to build reasonable prices, mixed-use and walk-friendly communities in order to counter the low-density and unordered urban sprawl. This paper focuses on the impacts and social evaluation of this movement. It points out that the starting point of this movement is experimental, and some of the ideas it flaunts have not been fully realized. However, this movement has caused all sectors of society to rethink their lifestyle and join the discussion of the new community development standard, which makes the new urbanist community a testing ground for new ideas and designs. The development of New Urbanism is the representative of contemporary American community planning, and it also provides valuable experience for the future transformation of community planning.

Currently, urban settlement improvement programs are widely promoted in China. As seen from the overseas experiences, the involvement of social capital and supra-local organizations in urban affairs alleviates the pressure on urban public resources that is due to the fiscal austerity of local governments. There has evolved a project management model of urban settlement improvement policy based on the ‘subsidiarity’ principle, of which EU’s Urban Community Initiative is a typical representative. Using an incentive and monitoring mechanism, this model guarantees the power of local authorities and the performance of public investment. In contrast, China’s relevant policies are usually implemented from top to bottom within the administration system, but some recent practices have indicated the emergence of ‘subsidiarity’. Through investigating the community enhancement program in M District in Shanghai, this paper found that the project management structure based on ‘subsidiarity’ can  adapt to the institutional environment of Chinese cities and obtain good implementation results. As a conclusion, such mode has reference signification to the modernization of China’s regional and urban governance, as well as community level  implementation.

The current function of the high-speed railway is mainly passenger transportation. Its opening and running have continuously promoted the flow of population between regions, and thus produced a series of spatial effects on the “human-land” integrated system. The rapid development of high-speed railway has attracted general attentions from economic geography and urban planning researchers. However, relevant research results are mainly based on a single perspective to explore the spatial impacts of high-speed railway spacetime compression on the entire region or a certain industry, lacking summaries of highspeed railway’s spatial effects from a holistic perspective. Therefore, this paper tries to sort out the spatial effects of the high-speed railway on different spatial scales, and systematically summarizes related issues, including high-speed railway new city and high-speed railway new district; high-speed railway and regional space structure; high-speed railway and tourism; highspeed railway and air transportation; high-speed railway and city scale, etc from previous researches. It tries to identify the basis of previous research deficiencies and to put forward research prospects for new problems and new phenomena in the new era of rapid development of high-speed railway. After building the theoretical framework of the effect in the high-speed rail space, it would provide references for future research on high-speed railroads.