Urban renewal is an age-old topic. Cities, like living organism, have been experiencing
metamorphosis all the time, and from very beginning are accompanied with urban renewal all
the
time.
Four decades of high speed economic development in China have greatly promoted its city’s
growth, providing much better transportation, living and business environment. Meanwhile it
also
brings problems like increasing shortage in land resources, breakage of city’s historical
context, and loss of features in regional culture. People begin to rethink the pattern of
leapfrog development, and pay more attention to renew the stock instead of constructing new
ones. Renovating the existing building stock, intensively utilizing land resources, and
uplifting environment are the key aspects of the city’s future development. The extensive
growth
mode of large-scaled demolishing old buildings and constructing new ones will gradually
being
replaced by the new trend that highlights heritage protection, cultural inheritance and
sustainable growth.
With this background, Chinese architects attach great importance to the integration of
comprehensive development through urban redevelopment, rehabilitation and conservation. They
are
dedicated to inaugurate ways to renew the city and contribute to a harmonious society.
The new method of urbanization will promote the reform of urban governance with people-centered approach,
and the urban construction management will become intensified, refined, smart and environmental-friendly.
Redevelopment plays an important role in urban renewal in China. Due to structural
adjustment
and industrial upgrading, many built-up areas including old industrial fields, docklands,
warehouses and residences nowadays can no longer keep up the pace with social economic
development. In process of urban renewal, these areas can be redeveloped so that they can
adapt
to the requirements of the new situation through changing either their land properties or
their
functional programs. The goal is to optimize urban functions, industrial structure and
living
environment.
In process of urban development and construction, it is important to upgrade aging
facilities,
improve battered buildings and restore deteriorated land. The old downtown areas and old
buildings can be revived and the overall environment in old areas can be uplifted if we make
adaptive reuse, strengthen structures to extend their service lives, and update their
functions.
We are encouraged to protect the buildings and city blocks that bear memories, have values
and
worthy of being reused. The goal is to restore and promote cultural inheritance, keep the
city’s
memories and seek intensive development through comprehensive renovation, functional
conversion
and environment uplifting.
Based on the ecological landscape services, continuously extend the industrial chain,
cultivate and develop ecological restoration, environmental governance, ecological protection and other fields of the market.
Historical context bears city spirit and cultural accumulation. It is the soul and the root
of
the city, and Chinese architects have widely recognized principle of conservation. They
revive
historical buildings through repair, reusing and through their own practices. They are
trying to
knit up the fragments of history context, and extend the city’s history far and wide.
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