- Conservation of Industrial Heritage in Transformation of Industrial City for Sustainable Development    click here to open paper content501 kb
by    Zhu, Qianyi | katherineqyzhu@gmail.com   click here to send an email to the auther(s) of this paper
Short Outline
In transformation of urbanism, how to do a new presentation of industry culture in post-industry time in the traditional industrial city? Paper analyzes strategies and models of urban special fabric involving industrial heritage by modernism theory.
Abstract
Traditional industrial city is facing to a transformation under the new type of economical environment. There are many these kinds of cities choose to move the industrial site out of the urban fabric, which including factories, mills and large quantity of accessorial zones. The traditional industrial city is missing their selves in the modern urbanism. The cities overindulgent into the narrow modernism, imitate and compete with each other blindly, and ignore the unique characters as a negative factor to the city. As canceling a polluted point in the city, while the factories¡¯ disappearing, the industrial site becomes brown field. Then most of them are planned to be residential site, shopping mall or new CBD because that the old industrial site always located on amazing land with stunning natural landscape and convenient infrastructure. While this kind of transformation of land use, the industrial heritage and culture are abandoned by the city.

In 20th century, as the fantastic economical development, there are megapolis are founded because of industry and trade in China. Dadukou district in Chongqing where is the youngest municipality of China is on its way of moving the industrial zone off which is the reason of this city¡¯s establishment. How to do a new presentation of industry culture in post-industry time in the traditional industrial city? How to create a characteristic and livable urban fabric involving the industrial heritage? How to hold the balance point between preserving industrial heritage site and approaching ecological transformation? Is there any scheme of renovating the urban land use instead of moving the polluted point from one city to another one? Dadukou, Chongqing, will be a representational case to anatomy the questions.
Keywords
Industrial city, brown field, industrial heritage, post-industry time, ecological transformation
Case Study presented on the ISOCARP Congress 2011: LIVEABLE CITIES: URBANISING WORLD, Meeting the Challenge
click here to open paper content  Click to open the full paper as pdf document
click here to send an email to the auther(s) of this paper  Click to send an email to the author(s) of this paper