Study On The City Texture In Old City Area Of Ming Dynasty In Xi'An

There have been quite some achievements in the protection of Ming dynasty urban space structure and of some important historical monuments in the old city area of Xi'an, but as a whole, the old city form is suffering gradual but serious deteriorating. Xi'an is growing more and more identical with other modern cities. However, developing and changing of a city is inevitable, so how to solve the contradiction between protection and development becomes very urgent. And City Texture is one of the ways helpful to maintaining memories of city history. So it is possible to connect the new construction to its history through city texture conforming, so as to integrate the historical city characteristics with the developing of this Ming Dynasty old city area.This paper first traces back to the concept of Texture, and bring up the history city texture, is a city at the long-term of turn into with the renewal process, the space for many factors for becomes of combination relate to with line up row order. After analyzing factors influencing the history city texture, this paper points out that the forming, evolution and changing of city texture have their own undeniable reasons. Furthermore, the evaluation of city texture is related closely to the purpose of developing and the purpose of historical city developing is inseparable with its protecting, and the standard of evaluation of city texture is whether it is consistent with historical city texture.Next, this paper continues with an analysis on the three levels of the City Texture— the urban level (including the block level), the courtyard ground level, and the building level, aiming at setting up an integrated cognition system of historical city texture of the old city area of Ming Dynasty, which can well mark the city texture characteristics in the historical city form. The whole department included the road texture, building texture, courtyard texture, plant texture, ground form texture. This system will also contain humanistic and modular features noteworthy in the protecting of city texture.The city texture of the old city area of Ming Dynasty has changed, less in the macroscopic levels but greatly in the microscopic level (such as in the street level, the courtyard level and the single building level), especially the changes during the past ten years. Change of city texture is inevitable owing to social developments, and inevitably brings serious destructions to this historical city form.With the above analysis, this paper concludes with a suggestion to establish a city texture controlling system in the old city area of Ming Dynasty, the structure and items of which are set up according to the analysis of historical city texture system and city texture change situation, and points out that it is essential to bring the city texture controlling system into the protection planning of the old city area of Ming Dynasty.