Supervisor¡¯s Foreword
Across the globe, countries and regions are increasingly confronted with the imper-ative of restructuring the spatial planning systems amid transitions toward more sustainablesocial, economic, and ecological models.Territorial space has become a hyper-complex system, raising the universal and pressing challenge of how to establish cross-departmental coordination and optimize spatial governance frame-works.Thisis preciselythevisionimpliedbytheconceptofOne Blueprint in spatial planning.
One Blueprint is a visionary framework proposed during this critical phase of China¡¯s ongoing spatial planning system reform.Fora countryof China¡¯svastscale andgovernancecomplexity,implementingsuchaframework representsaformidable systems engineering challenge. This is especially true in city and county, where numerous sectoral departments often act independently, leading to fragmented plan-ning and interventions in the same spatial area¡ªfrequently resulting in con.icts and redundancies. This book offers a systematic inquiry into this pressing issue in city/county territory. Through theoretical construction and technical innovation, it provides an integrated response with both scholarly and practical signi.cance.
Thebook thoroughlyexploresthenature, function,attributes,organizationallogic, and technical approach of One Blueprint. One of the notable insights of this book lies in its identi.cation of One Blueprint as a mechanism framework for guiding the multi-dimensional coordination of spatial intervention actions. Based on this, the study distills the organizational logic of the One Blueprint into threekey subsys-tems: Areas zoning, Elements allocation, and Patterns shaping (collectively AEP framework). Building on this foundation, the book develops a concrete technical approach for integrated digital planning map system and supportive spatiotemporal grid mechanism for One Blueprint. Thekey .ndings and innovations of the book are:
(1) It systematically outlines the full coverage of components involved in city-/ county-level spatial plans, including relevant spatial governance mechanisms and technical approaches, offering a deep theoretical analysis of the critical issues underlying the construction of One Blueprint.
Supervisor¡¯sForeword
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It transcends the limitations of department-centric paradigm by, for the .rst time, establishing a uni.ed theory of One Blueprint grounded in the concept of spatial intervention. The bookexamines the attributesof spatial intervention actions and identi.es a coherent system of intervention instruments, revealing the intrinsic logic underlying spatial planning.
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It reveals a core structural regularity for One Blueprint: regardless of the complexity or contradictions among multiple planning, they can all be iden-ti.ed as composites of three spatial intervention subsystems¡ªAreas-Elements-Patterns (AEP). Hence,theorganizationand optimizationoftheAEP framework form the core architecture of One Blueprint.
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It articulates the structural components and optimization pathways of the AEP frameworkinasystematic manner.Basedonthis,it proposesanadaptivedigital planning map system and introduces a spatiotemporal gridding mechanism, integrating the management of spatial data and intervention objects at the infor-mation infrastructure level¡ªa technique foundation for the realization of One Blueprint.
This book offers valuable insights for guiding the reform and practice of spatial planningnotonlyin Chinabutalso internationally.Itprovides meaningful reference for planning practices, while also contributing theoretical innovations to disciplines such as urban planning, land administration, resource and environmental manage-ment, and geographic informationscience.Iam con.dent that this book will serveas a valuable resource for professionals, scholars, and readers engaged in or interested in spatial planning and spatial governance.
Beijing, China Prof.Wei Deng March 2025
