b'The challenges and strategies for the redevelopment of Chinese railway station areas built in 1950s-1980s: Guangzhou Railway Station as an exampleXu JiajingDue to improvements in transportation, the railwaySecondly, it analyses the situation of the Guangzhou station has become a catalyst for radical redevelopmentrailway station by site survey and field observation. plans worldwide. In China, most of the existing railwayThirdly, it summarises some urban design principles stations were built between 1950s-1980s and focusfrom three case studies of successful redevelopment on the function of train movements. This has led to aprojectsTokyo Station, Shenzhen Luohu Station and disconnect between the station and other parts of theGuangzhou East Railway Station. Finally, it discusses city. As the city grows, theses old stations are consumedwhether these principles could be applied to the by the urban forms around them. This inconsistencyredevelopment of Guangzhou Railway Station. These between the old stations and the dynamic and modernstrategies focus on the improvement of the transport contexts around them results in the necessity for theinterchange as well as the quality of urban space around redevelopment of these major transit hubs. it.This research takes the Guangzhou Railway StationThis research provides ideas to address the challenges as an example, and identifies the challenges of theof Guangzhou Railway Station. Moreover, the challenges redevelopment process and also defines redevelopmentanalysed in this research are applicable to the urban strategies by learning from precedents in Asia. Thespaces around other railway station redevelopments in research is divided into four sections. Firstly, it studiesChina.the changing contexts of Chinese railway development and station area redevelopment through literature review.Current transit organisation Current road networkSource: by author Source: by author 138P5-20200301-FOLIO RESEARCH.indd 9 2020/3/4 23:13:22'