Transformation of the historical town of WuZhen, China
| Name | Transformation of the historical town | |
| Place | WuZhen | |
| Country | China | |
| Author(s) | Chengkang Ye, Yiting Wei | |
| Project start | enter the date of the project start | |
| Completion | enter the date of completion | |
| World Heritage | enter the year of listing | |
| Client | enter the client | |
| Project costs | enter the costs (if known) | |
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Rationale: Why is the case study interesting?
- An experimental approach to preserving a historical town in East China.
Though the preservation of this traditional water town scenery was not only a simple desire to remain and improve a regional landscape, it was with an aspiration to achieve economic profits, the program did improve the visual scenery , and did help to raise the awareness of cultural landscape. By the mean time, problems produced by the whole program make us to rethink the planning method, e.g. the inadequate concern of the balance of inhabitants’ daily life and the tourism.
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- We hope we can learn following issues from this case study: one of possible approaches to preserve a historical town; thinking about how to improve the function for this town, and at the same time, to preserve a traditonal view of the fansy street scape and the attractive building-street-river space.
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