Traditional architectural forms in market oriented Chinese cities: Place for localities or symbol of culture?



Chen, Fei ORCID: 0000-0001-8168-507X
(2011) Traditional architectural forms in market oriented Chinese cities: Place for localities or symbol of culture? HABITAT INTERNATIONAL, 35 (2). pp. 410-418.

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Abstract

China provides a unique social-economic and political context for urban conservation and regeneration within the current trend of modernisation and globalisation. This paper investigates 4 urban regeneration projects conducted in four most internationalised historical Chinese cities from 1989 to 2005, in order to understand how traditional architectural elements are manipulated in these projects. It also examines the roles local governments, developers, designers and local residents played in these projects in the intensification process of the market oriented economy over time. The paper argues that socio-cultural sustainable regeneration of historical urban environments must make places for local people, rather than preserve certain traditional forms as cultural symbols. Tradition must evolve by the collective and traditional forms must be widely used in architectural and urban design with community involvement, in order to achieve real cultural identity and social cohesion. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Tradition, Market oriented economy, Urban regeneration, Symbol of culture
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Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 25 Mar 2015 15:34
Last Modified: 19 Oct 2023 05:00
DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2010.11.012
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/2008901

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