To Ristitch the City, the Transport Infrastructure Renewal Aimed at Recasting the Urban Spaces

Rapid transit facilities are important infrastructure of modern metropolis. While bringing convenient transportation, they destroyed the city landscape and the urban scale, tore apart the city, fragmented the urban space and urban function, brought about a lot of environmental, economic and social problems. Since the 1970s, a lot of researches and practices have been conducted in many cities, which tried to eliminate or reduce the division of urban space, functions and ecology system caused by rapid transit facilities through the renewal of transport infrastructure. These experiences have reference significance to Chinese cities represented by Beijing.