Urban development Programming steps
Research the project type	Central business district	Low carbon business community	Low carbon economy: Economic structure, Energy utilization, and efficiency, Urban planning and design. Architecture. Modern business community: Personalized building image, high-quality humanistic environment
Identifying goals and objectives	Organizational goals	Identifying the city authorities’ goals	Fostering the growth of domestic and international trade, raising domestic consumption, disposable income growth, job creation in urban areas, the development of modern service industries, advanced manufacturing, and “Strategic Emerging Industries” (SEI’s) growth (2).
	Form and Image	Identifying the aesthetic	Personalized building image: Modern and fashion, High-tech, Personalized
		Identifying the psychological impact of the urban design	Eco-system services and public spaces: the creation of new public spaces shaped by the disposition of the architectural elements, which at the same time create new small public spaces and an underground public space creating an interconnected friendly public space system in the middle of surroundings friendly for the pedestrian.
		Analysis of project connectivity	The Hongqiao Transportation (Hub) HTH integrates high-speed rail (HSR) as well as air, metro and road links into a single massive hub, with Maglev links planned in the future (2).
		Analysis similarity with the surrounding area/neighborhood	HQCBD is the key and strategic node of the Yangtze river delta network city. The intersection point of the five central urban areas: Jiading, Kunshan, Qingpu, Songjiang, Minhang. Similar neighborhood: Hongqiao linking economic zone, Hongqiao foreign trade center, Chanfengeco-business park.
		Identifying the created image of the project in urban planning	The green landscape along the east-west spindle, design open green spaces in the waterfront space, form a green pedestrian system tightly integrated with the urban activities, become a natural ecological system.
		Identifying historical, cultural	HQCBD has the presence of famous touristic old Qibao water Town.
	Function goals	Identifying the significant functions will take place in the new district	Domestic and international trade center, Functional industrial forms, the Functional pattern of three districts and one belt.
		Identifying the population accommodate in the project
		Analyzing the future buildings design enhance or impact occupant interactions
		Analysis to reduce the commitment flow
	Economic goals	Project budget	Not available.
	Economic goals	The level of quality is desired, the attitude toward conservation of resources and sustainability	The first combined cooling, heating, and power supply system in China has also been put into operation in the CBD, according to the Hongqiao CBD committee. (1)