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.