The Implementable "Micro-Reform": A Strategy for Activating Historic Districts
Zhang Xiaoyang
Wang Shifu
Fei Yan
Abstract：In the era of inventory planning, the development of urban historic districts has become an important way to release the endogenous development power and enhance the urban quality, as well as the main theme of shaping the city's characteristics and showing the feature. There are plenty of theoretical and practical research on the protection and development of urban historic districts in the past three decades. The driving forces of activating historic districts are summarized on the basis of the a large number of cases. It further analyses the dilemma that are faced during the development on historic districts, based on a case study of Guangzhou historic districts. Finally, this paper puts forwards some strategies that the activation of historic districts should be based on protection, supported by the participation of multi-subjects, equipped by property rights through some micro-reform projects. This paper aims to improve the living environment for the residents and to provides some suggestions for the future practices.
Keywords：historic districtsactivationmicro-reformmulti-subjectproperty rights
Publication Date：2017-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 56-60 )