Assembledge+ served as Chief Urban Designer working with a local Chinese planning firm, UPDIS, to create this urban design plan for a new Gateway District in the City of Yangzhou along the historic Grand Canal from Beijing to Hangzhou.  The scheme includes a new city center with office, civic and municipal buildings, residential, retail commercial as well as entertainment and park uses along both sides of the canal celebrating the canal and its importance in the development of Yangzhou.

The plan carefully allocates density and building heights to correspond to the location of planned subway stations following established principles of Transit Oriented Development. This link between public transit and land use density also creates a varied and interesting city skyline with variations in height allowing a changing silhouette throughout the district.