Abstract：In 1980, the 99 cities with national historical and cultural famous values were made public by the State Council.Recently, It is taking worldwide attention for the way and manner to protect those cities. The difficulty is to coordinate conflicts between protecting the historical cultural elements and developing its economy or society. Xi'an is an famous historical cultural city in the world. This article is provided strong ways and the ideas for those famous cities which should take on sustainable development. By the way it should be overcome that conflicts and solving the problems in city development. So, the primary problem of protecting Xi'an, the famous historical cultural city, is a comprehensive strategy. Then the protecting districts are divided with the local law. The architectures around those historical or cultural sites should be coordinate with that environment in scale, style, color or the cultural environment. For the using those historical-cultural elements, the sites in the old inner city should be lined into a tourist way. Lastly, author gives the ideas that the sustainable protection, strategic development, programming and arrangement, designing of city and so on, should be considered and planned as a whole. While we are developing the social economy of Xi'an city, we should promote the protection and inheritance of historic and cultural heritage.
范少言. 论西安历史文化名城的可持续性保护[J]. 人文地理, 2003, 18(5): 31-33.
FAN Shao-yan. A STUDY ON SUSTAINABLE PRESERVATION TO XIAN HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL FAMOUS CITY. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2003, 18(5): 31-33.
