Historic Districts in the Wake of Modern Adversities: Reflections from China and Norway

作     者：Sai Varsha Akavarapu Wang Yu Lisbet Sauarlia 无

作者机构：Norwegian University of Science and Technology Department of Architecture and Planning 

出 版 物：《China City Planning Review》 (城市规划（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2019年第28卷第2期

页      面：44-51页

核心收录：

学科分类：08[工学] 081303[工学-城市规划与设计(含：风景园林规划与设计）] 0813[工学-建筑学] 

基　　金：funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No.770141 

主　　题：historic district conservation cultural heritage globalization modernization economic and spatial restructuring China Norway 

摘      要：A shift to a market-led economy initialized due to globalization has caused massive restructuring – both economically and spatially.In the midst of such restructuring processes for place promotion and investment marketing, falls culture and heritage.The developed world identified the value of heritage and centered the restructuring around the global-local nexus, whereas the developing world, increasingly influenced by the far west, made progress towards Americanization. However different the approaches might be, a similarity in the situation of perception of culture can be found today – induced by the technical and global forces.A new debate emerged in the professional communities on preserving the essence of historic districts/neighborhoods based on the ideologies and perceptions of governments and communities alike.This paper aims to decipher the influence of the changing notion of development and the globalization on the historic districts in the developing and developed worlds, by detailing the case of the Drum Tower Muslim District in Xi’an and a mining town named R?ros(a world heritage site) in Norway.The study is primarily based on secondary sources, discussions with experts, field visits, and in depth interviews with local people.The findings from both the cases prove that there is no clear distinction in the current scenario of historic district preservation, although the governing processes and planning mechanisms of both countries have stark differences.