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Article
Ju Er Hutong Project: A Rehabilitation Model or an Unsuccessful Attempt?
Author(s)
Giuseppe Cinà and Qi Mu
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DOI:10.17265/1934-7359/2018.09.003
Affiliation(s)
Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST), Polytechnic and University of Turin, Turin 10129, Italy
ABSTRACT
What will be the future of Chinese urban heritage in the context of
globalisation and a socialist market? Ju Er Hutong, as one of the first
rehabilitation projects to take place during China’s late-1980s housing
reforms, is generally considered a successful initiative in terms of urban
regeneration and historic area conservation. To what extent does this success demonstrate
a capacity to develop new policies and a new planning approach in the current
Chinese urban regeneration process? To answer this question, and to summarize
its achievements and its remaining unsolved problems, this paper provides the
following insights: (1) an analysis of the
evolution of Ju Er Hutong to its current form; (2) a literature review concerning the background
and the outcome of the rehabilitation process; and (3) a critical
assessment of the overall process, so as to summarize its constitutive
advantages and problems.
KEYWORDS
Urban heritage, old city preservation, Ju Er Hutong, urban restructuring, conservation.
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