Historical Study On City Transformation And City Construction Of Early Modern Nanchang

With the perspective of history of city planning, the thesis shows the process of the development in Nanchang's city planning during the early modern period, and analyses the characteristics of city planning in the area to explain how the city's development and evolution happened and its function and historical status. The methods employed include history, city planning, architecture, sociology, statistics, etc.From introduces the origin of the study, research content, methods, and framework in order to offer a theoretical background of this thesis. By tracing the evolution of Nanchang city, the second chapter summarize the general situation of Nanchang's history and geography, importantly discuss the steps of evolution, including the beginning of the transformation, the development of the transportation, and the change of city's function. The characteristics of Nanchang's evolution are summarized to determining the social background for the city planning in modern period. From the angle of the city planning itself, firstly divides the research period into four sub-periods and gives the dividing reasons. Secondly the chapter shows the progress of changes and developments of the important aspects of city planning, including the guidelines and the significant events, etc. Lastly this part discusses the development of the urban management. The purpose of this chapter is to analyze the historical material and literature to outline the track of the development of city planning in Nanchang. Views on the study of the typical cases such as removing the city wall, building the road around city, city park-relaxation area's construction, planning and building of Zhongshan-bridge, etc. These cases to some degree involves in the planning problems in transportation, landscaping and development of river nearby. A summary of the cause and characteristic of city planning. The religion invade of the imperialism, the thought of industrial waking and the movement of new-life compose the main cause. The characteristic is posed on the road commerce development and political construction. These analysis have something referential value for the research on city planning and space morphologic development. In conclusion,through the 67 years of Nanchang city transformation and urban planning and construction, it is beneficial for the development of modern cities of Nanchang have a clearer understanding. Hoped that through this modern city of Nanchang, the construction can provide some ideas and reference.