A Study On The History Of Hangzhou Early-modern City Planning: 1897-1949

Hangzhou City was built from 591A.D, extent its parados in Tang Dynasty, and built King Palace during the Five Dynasties period to set its layout following Chinese traditional city planning theory. In the following 1 000 years, the parados has been destroyed and rebuilt for many times, but the general layout of this city is always kept the same. The 21^st year of Republican China (1932), Hangzhou government had established Hangzhou Zoning Planning and Hangzhou Traffic Planning. In the 34^th year, the government proposed Hangzhou New Metropolitan Planning, the first complete planning in Chinese early-modern period.Hangzhou had become a famous tourism city and traffic center of Zhejang province as a result of 53 years' construction. This essay based on thoroughly history data to divide Hangzhou early-modern planning into four parts, which are port opening and early rail construction period (1896-1911), tourism construction period (1911-1937), city planning during War II (1938-1945), and new metropolitan construction period (1946-1949). This study exhausts contents and special characteristics of city planning in these four periods and gives an independent chapter to analyze the relationship of West Lake and Hangzhou city.In conclusion, this thesis shows the typical of city planning of Hangzhou in early-modern period in the ways of clarifying the orientation of city planning, zoning and city modernization and early-modern urbanization. In the meantime, this thesis evaluates the historical function and position of Hangzhou city planning in early-modern period and offers some associated directions of Hangzhou city planning in early-modern period in future.