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摘要

A new urban park in Beijing is an example of turning a liability into an asset. Beijing's new Central Park of Modern Art was originally planned as 10 hectares in the northwest quadrant of the master plan for Beijing's new Central Business District (CBD). As constructed, the size of the park shrank to one-third of the master-planned area—3.6 hectares —as the municipal government sought to maximize building area, and a local street was extended through the space, cutting the park in two. To make matters worse, the planning of the park was challenged by a mix of residential (north side) and office (south side) uses distributed among four different developers.