Research on Station Redevelopment of High-speed Rail Hub
Under the Concept of Station-city Integration:
Taking King’s Cross Central in London as an Example
Abstract：With the development of regional integration, the trend of rail transit directly connecting strategic nodes is significant.
When cities introduce high-speed rail tracks into existing hub sites in the city core area, they find that the redevelopment
of hub sites generally faces problems, such as multiple stakeholders, serious spatial fragmentation, large idle scale
construction and lack of characteristics. The King’s Cross Central has transformed from a decaying and poor area into
an attractive and important technological, commercial, and cultural community in London after it is connected to the
Eurostar intercontinental high-speed rail. It is necessary to summarize its renovation and operation experience to inspire
the sustainable operation of station-city integration construction in China’s megacities. The key solutions that can be
used for reference include balancing the interests of stakeholders via mixed-functional communities, enhancing the
walkable accessibility of the site, innovative planning permission mechanism to reasonably arrange the development
sequence and continuing the cultural context. Combined with the reality of China’s megacities, it is proposed that the
railway department, urban department and market institutions should work together to organize walking paths and
functions according to local conditions, orderly control the development scale and development sequence, and pay
attention to the role of culture in hub renewal.
