Urban Renewal

Urban renewal is a constant process in the urban space, however in China many town centers have not experienced urban renewal and thus do not have urban planning that accurately reflects their current level of wealth while preparing for future growth. But all urban renewal must first focus on the people. Mumford writes, "The city's best economic model is concerned with the people and with cultivating the people."People are the unit variable to be considered in the process of urban renewal, and they should be constituted as follows: current composition of their needs verses surrounding industry (including its scale and rate of modernization), while shaping the city block trends should be predicted but with included degrees of certainty, diversity in urban cultural heritage should find expression not just in details but in larger design flow channels, general harmony finding its nexus in the individual as an economic and social development. Finally when considering urban renewal, we advocate what is referred to as a “small-scale, progressive, pluralistic model of urban renewal." We believe this can replace the aggressive style of heroic development seen historically.

Urban Renewal Strategy
Urban renewal, as the city's self-regulation mechanism, impacts future development of the.With the progress of the times, urban renewal has developed into an integrated economic, social, cultural and physical environment in the global renaissance of urban public policy.? It is a constant question of not just renewal itself but enrichment.

Industry Cluster-oriented urban renewal
Considering the city as organism, externally there is material and energy exchange, internally urban renewal is the evolution of metabolism.With the continuous advance of the global economy, deciding how to frame the philosophy of urban renewal is a pressing question in China ....

Is it necessary to have a political exegesis in considering design To the left, or right To move forward or backward This is still the question!
Beginning of the 20th century, for 90 years, the pace of building China's large cities has proceeded too rapidly, and does not allow people to think clearly what they need.
Yesterday, also sit with Zaba Douzhi Hupenghuanyou the old shop, today, it becomes a pile of rubble, at most, those on the original in the room beautifully decorated, such as doors,such as windows, such as brick, was forced people have come to the coach car counts in the hands of traffickers transported to the heritage. In Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou cities such as edges, have assembled resell the place. This image of our changes in the urban form of anxiety.
Culture, like a long river. Culture imprint will be displayed in the building was clear. People say, "building is a stone's history books," "Architecture is Frozen Music", on this reason. Different peoples have different cultural development context, has just like in the transmission of authentication like. We learn from others, urban construction experience, is to learn the formal symbols of their urban space Type of radiation such as Paris Avenue, such as Manhattan skyscrapers.The city is to learn their business idea Example, the ecological concept of sustainable development, such as improving the operational system of urban construction. To the left, or right This is a problem.
Life, not of stagnation, even brilliant. Architecture is life,the container, the flow of life itself determines the appropriate architectural form. Different times of the architectural form of the combination to form the corresponding urban fabric and urban form. Social way of life different from the mainstream of the times will lead to a different city patterns.
"Zhou Kao Gong Ji," there are "nine by nine weft, track passers-by nine-track" theory. For example, in Beijing's urban renewal has continued to stress axis and the loop road. New York-style spread, or apply a uniform planning system structured? For example, in Beijing's urban renewal on whether to join the Urban Freeway, so that Canada, we can learn from the example is to look around before our mode of production,or overlooking to the future? Urban renewal is care before or after care This is still the question!
Live in the development, culture in mobile, urban in the update, the world is in motion there. Regardless of left,right, forward, backward, we must in order to respect the real life of contemporary people of the premise for urban renewal.Like Iri Shah Saarinen said - exempted from the destruction of cities can depend on a basic question whether the special but can be resolved: to provide comfortable facilities and a healthy environment for people to work and live.
In 1980 an international urban design conference, J Jacobs pointed out: large-scale planning only makes certain parties excited: the architects,politicians, property developers experience exhilaration, while the masses are always victims.
Large-scale urban renewal, reconstruction and development,reflects the development of a large industrial age.This development model model supports the view that economic growth is to rely on a high accumulation and high-spending.It advocates the view that economic growth is the sole objective of development of human society.This is an urban development has been the West's point of view, and we have seen its limits.These include the unwarranted drain on the survival of human society's limited resources,leading to environmental degradation but also to social and moral standards falling into confusion.
Urban renewal in the West aims to improve urban living conditions, but ultimately it evolved into a large-scale commercial land development, and was also accompanied by the decline of urban centers, urban traffic congestion, etc. The city fabric is always being replaced by new urban forms: the gradual eradication of original neighborhoods, the urban mentality of unease, new immigrant settlements, crimes continue to occur regardless of police advances. In short 20th century urban renewal projects in the West have mostly failed to resolve issues of living conditions or improve the urban environment.
Modernist urban planning thought is built on an outdated concept of the city as a static point of view residing above and outside the body. O. Paris Haussmann’s rebuilding works, E. Howard's garden city, Le Corbusier's glorious cities, lack any “form of determinism.” They neglect the ability of a city to socially engineer people, and instead follow the mantra, “Fast Road + Greenery + Skyscraper = Modern City.” The so-called city of rationality may in fact mostly contain only symbols of rational passion. The famous critic of cities, L. Mountford, commented, "Many cities(sic) seem modern in planning, but most are still filled with the useless spirit of Baroque era thinking.”
However, in the earlier trials of Western urban planning are lessons, and in China's large cities, especially in the big cities with both history and cultural traditions of reconstruction and urban update, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, we can make unprecedented use of the well documented American trials in urban planning. In urban renewal China has traditionally adopted a unified approach in large-scale transformations. Unified, easy to manage, easy to co-ordinate, easy to construct, easy to own and understand as an urban image, while this method has undeniable conveniences, it fundamentally violates the city's nature.
Cities are first and foremost a product of human settlement, where tens of thousands of people then live together. They have different interests, wealth, ability and needs, and these diverse elements are interrelated through the necessity for mutual accommodation. Successfully designed, such results in a vibrant city with plenty of space for social and economic growth. However such success depends on adequate understanding of the network delineating the urban spatial environment, reflecting the complex needs of human behavior and reflecting the value of urban culture.
L. Mountford said, "the city's best economic model is concerned with the people and cultivating people." China excells in cultivating people-oriented spaces. Implementation of urban renewal processes in the neighborhood buildings of small towns or smaller areas of larger cities requires in-depth understanding of people's basic living needs, social needs and spiritual needs. The pursuit of great and magnificent Baroque-style urban renewal plans was an example of the near-blind heroism that we want to avoid. Aggressive style innovation in the city's update is also not desirable. The modern city and concern for the measure of space in the design, especially in the settlements, should be the primary focus of attention. In the development of human-scale production methods, including the appropriate technology for sustainable development and urban renewal. In the context of the city's historical inheritance development can be achieved with balance. In the creation of urban space based on predictions with a modest scale of certainty, the form of the new spaces created can foster the evolution of the urban economy while maintaining stability through social outputs which as they evolve will themselves create pressures for new urban renewal. For larger cities with a long history and culture, alterations should keep in mind that "small is beautiful", which can be implemented both through phases and time-lines, though first trying out designs on sub-locations, which should in turn point out both the strengths and weaknesses in the organic nature of the urban update.
Urban renewal must protect the cultural fabric if it is to encourage the further development of local citizens. Using contextual advantages it can improve the quality of the contemporary culture of life. This also continues a positive attitude towards architectural heritage. By using the word protection, we mean that a reasonable space must be maintained for the real life of contemporary people, avoiding the so-called corporate, culture-less cities, which in turn means our focus remains better development of citizens themselves. Moderation and balance of interests for stability is the urban renewal policy. In urban architecture and design, organic update are desirable when intellectually possible.
Cities thrive as people's cities. This requires a harmony between the heritage of historic buildings, the facilitation of economic activities, and space extended into growing spaces of culture which will allow the people to grow and fill them. Every city faces this crossroads with failure demonstrated through history becoming silent, spaces becoming wordless.

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