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Journal of Chinese
Architecture and Urbanism The role of planning

Figure 1. The Masterplan of Red Rooster 1151 Zhenbei Road Commercial Office Building Project. Source: Shanghai Putuo District Government 5

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area must not be less than 20%. The building’s color and its adherence to all the provisions on January 29, 2021. A
materials should be warm-toned, and the building must site visit in July 2023 revealed that the complex remained
be set back at least 15 meters from the road. The design unoccupied and is seeking tenants to rent the available
style should align coherently with neighboring residential office space (Figure 2).5
buildings.
4.2. Practice-led industrial redevelopment
The detailed regulatory plans and approval documents
at each stage of the project development were published 4.2.1. The semi-informal approach
on the website of the Shanghai Putuo District Government The Shanghai Economic and Information Commission, a
for a limited period. According to Google Earth, all former government agency overseeing manufacturing factories
industrial buildings were demolished, and the site was in Shanghai, introduced a “three kinds of unchanges and
cleared in 2012. Throughout the entire process, the SPPLMB five kinds of changes (sanbubian wubian)” policy in 2004.
represented the authorities overseeing the regeneration According to this policy, industrial land reuse projects with
process. On April 18, 2017, the SPPLMB approved the unchanged building structures, an unchanged (registered)
construction project proposed by the Shanghai Red land use status (tudi xingzhi), and unchanged ownership of
Rooster Development Company in the document titled premises could be treated as building renovation projects
Shanghai Putuo Planning Land (2016) Grant Contract No. 4 — instead of land redevelopment projects — thus do not
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(Version 1.0). On February 28, 2018, the Planning Permit need planning permissions. This policy strongly implies
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for Construction Project was issued by the SPPLMB . The an alternative approach to industrial land redevelopment,
construction work commenced in 2018 and was completed enabling the bypassing of planning controls and fostering
in 2021. The SPPLMB reviewed the project and confirmed
4 Website of Shanghai Putuo District Government, https://www.
2 Website of Shanghai Putuo District Government, https://www. shpt.gov.cn/guituju/jsgcsjfascyj-zdgzzfwj2021/202 11005/711723.
shpt.gov.cn/guituju/upload/202103/0308_162552_718.pdf, html, https://www.shpt.gov.cn/guituju/upload/202106/0616
accessed on July 28, 2023. _151521_581.pdf, accessed on July 24, 2023.
3 Website of Shanghai Putuo District Government, https://www. 5 The masterplan was retrieved from Shanghai Putuo District
shpt.gov.cn/guituju/jsgcghxukz-zdgzzfwj2021/20211005/712008. Government’s website http://www.shpt.gov.cn/guituju/
html, accessed on July 28, 2023. gcxuke/20180320/314052.html, visited on 20 April 2020

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