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Research on the Impact of Crisis Events on Urban Development—A Case Study of Kunming Railway Station Terrorist Attack

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In recent years, China is in an important period in the new-type urbanization construction process, but crisis events happened frequently, doing great harm to the urban infrastructure and hindering the urban development. It will be of great importance to reduce the negative impact of crisis events and promote the urban development. A violent incidents happened in Kunming railway station on the evening of March 1 2014, causing a massive impact to the urban development of Kunming. Therefore, this paper will take Kunming railway station terrorist attack for an example, getting data though literature review and media reports to study how the crisis events produce an effect on the urban development. At last, I also give some suggestions to reverse the bad situation.

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We would like to thank project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.71373231) for financing this study.

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Li, Y., Wu, Y. (2017). Research on the Impact of Crisis Events on Urban Development—A Case Study of Kunming Railway Station Terrorist Attack. In: Wu, Y., Zheng, S., Luo, J., Wang, W., Mo, Z., Shan, L. (eds) Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0855-9_12

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