A Study On The Urban Plane Morphology Under Chinese Colonial Planning

The development of contemporary Chinese cities showing the characteristics of diversity and quickly. Diversity allows more heterogeneous elements of the city form, change rapidly make urban development no longer is a gradual process, but contains a large number of fracture, dash, and cause the contradiction and unbalance of development. This has a very similar place with the Chinese cities after the colonial invasion in 1840. The cultural and economic invasion brought out by western powers violently hit the Chinese traditional city construction system for thousands of years, made the development of port opening cities in Chian showing unprecedented urban feature. Not only in the urban landscape, function space, but in the internal structure there are obviously different from the traditional city. Especially in the city plane form, showing the characteristics of heterogeneous collage, mechanical grid and broken mixed.The evolution of city plane form contains the most complete record of the development process of physical form of cities, because it is he most complete collection during the different stages of the residual features in development, the life, history and development of the city, have been deeply engraved in its appearance and its built-up area of the fabric. This paper will explore the similarities and differences and the process of formation, characteristic and influence by comparison between the traditional area and concession area in urban morphology under colonial urban planning in China, from the perspective of contrast and the evolution, and tracing back the history form the existing morphology.The standpoint of the research is to return from macro to micro, from the city back to the block, through the original texture, external texture, newborn texture to analysis, try to find out the mode and train of thought of Chinese modern urban design and planning from the changes and the development process in nearly hundred years city plane form. Hope to have the certain enlightenment and reference in present large-scale urbanization construction in China.In order to investigate the impact of urban planning and urban construction in the western cities, this paper will analysis and interpretation from six parts. The first part review the research status from domestic and abroad, define the concept and the scope of the study. The second part, from the perspective of history and culture, summed up the main idea and characteristics of urban morphology of ancient China and opened China. Introduce the existence of foreign architectural forms, distribution before open port and the change in the concession area and the urban morphology after open port. The third part focus on comparative analysis, sum up its development mode and characteristics in street system, pattern, characteristic architectural form in urban morphology under colonial planning. The fourth part summed up the main characteristics of urban morphology evolution plane, internal factors and external performance under colonial planning form different cultural background and colonial cities planning thoughts. The fifth part rethinking the impact and influence under colonial planning and colonial culture, as well as the influence and change to our tradition city form the modern Chinese urban planning ideas. The final part will summarize the whole paper. Combing the impact, the formation of the characteristics and existing problemsthe of entire modern urban plane form in the colonial period, reveal the urban development rule when these cities in the face of the impact and influence of foreign culture, find out the methods and strategies of how to deal with when we face to the multiple and rapid development impact in today’s city.