A Study On Wuhan Modern City Planning History

The period between the year of 1949 to 2009 is a stage that the new ideology and social system was explored and matured gradually. It was eventually involved in the trend of international. As an urban case study, a special systems, a local culture, the urban planning of Wuhan City shows a relatively unique form in the aspects of thought, theory, technology, system and so on so forth.The first chapter of the paper mainly defines the objective and scope of the study. Based on the study of existing situation, significance of the topic and research methods, it illustrates that the purpose of the study is to have a comprehensive study for the modern city planning of Wuhan in the history between 1949 and 2009. The second chapter gives sub-phases and sub-division in reviewing the city of Wuhan as well as the historical development. Additionally, it defines the content and the types of urban planning in the period. From the view of the historical background and perspective of the development process of urbanization, the chapter three, four and five classifies the historical period into three stages and explores the theory and practice of urban planning in each stage. At the same time, it analyzes the planning activities and summarizes the main characteristics in different phases.From the view of establishing the urban planning system, the chapter six focuses on the relationship between urban planning drawing-up system and its sub-systems of urban planning management. It discusses the evolution characteristics of administrative system, technical system and legal system by analyzing the establishment of administrative system, the promulgation of legal norms, and the development of technology in national and local levels. The case of Wuhan urban planning is producing as successful sample which could be applied in the other places of modern China.The chapter seven conducts a comprehensive summary of the historical features the historical characteristics of the social development in the recent 60 years. It also discusses the future research directions.