A Discussion on Housing Development in Multi-center Cities:Phenomenon & Planning Implications of Chongqing

The study is carried out under a context of mounting problems facing big Chinese cities,including housing affordability,price-control failures,traffic pressures and so on.The study examines Chongqing's past trajectories in urban development and attempts to explain the phenomena of the city's multi-centric spatial structure, low transportation pressure and high housing affordability Finally,the implications of the Chongqing case are discussed,in particular,the measures to facilitate the optimization of spatial structure and to achieve the social objective of housing affordability for big metropolises in China during the Twelfth Five-Year Plan period.