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| ANALYSIS AND REGENERATION ON THE SPACE STRUCTURE OF HUAYANG HISTORIC TOWN AS A CASE STUDY |
| LI Jian-wei1, ZHU Jing1, YIN Huai-ting1, CUIyan2 |
1. Department of Urban and Resource Science, Northwest University, Xi'an 710127, China;
2. Library, Xi'an University of Arts and Science, Xi'an 710065, China |
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Abstract Historic town has grown its unique space structure influenced by the local material and cultural basis. However, the spatial structure of historic town has been destroyed by the infusing functions of modern city. Now, the contradiction between town development and historic town protection has been worse than ever. Generally speaking, the historic value, artistic importance, and aesthetic spirit, hidden in the historic town, are not only the basis of traditional Chinese culture, but also the achievements of modern industrial civilization, which present the wills of changing the world by human beings, and of people living in busy cities. Now there's no uniform mode for protection and development of historic town due to the big differences among historic towns all over the world, such as geographic differences, cultural differences and so on. In this thesis, guided by space-structure theory, the author tries to explain the space system, the protection-development contradiction viewing at natural-ecologic space, manual matter space, and spirit space by taking the Huayang town, Yang County, Shaan'xi province as an example, so as to regrow historic town with its unique material and cultural value.
With 2000-year history, Huayang town, located in the south of Qin Mountain, was grown under special space arrangement, which is the amalgamation between stockaded village and middle axes. It is said that this is an excellent space arrangement among traditional Chinese towns. Furthermore, the basis for historic town is the nature-ecologic space, which is meaningful not only for environment, but also for culture. And this is the key to harmonious development between nature and historic town.
Huayang town was planned under the foundation of regrowing economic value, culture value, social value and ecologic value,which made a harmonious intergrowth in terms of methods such as frame construction, ante type protection, function enrichment, renewal system, figure creation, and space conformity. The regrowth of space structure of historic town is not only a space problem, but also a problem under typical period and society, which plays an important role between the living standard improvement for local people and nature-history sustenability. Moreover, the protection and regrowth of space structure is not the only way to analyze historic town. Under the invading of modern civilization, how to made an effective, harmonious, and sustainable development for historic town is a further problem.
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Received: 05 July 2007
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2008, Vol. 23 
