Historical And Cultural City Protection Governance Research

The concept History and Culture Town has been put forward formally since 1982. After more than twenty years of theoretic study and exploration on the idea, the protection of government, experts and public have developed stronger consciousness on conservation and unified view on conservation values. A more complete protection framework system of History and Culture Town has been established. They have reached an agreement on the technical issues related to conservation principle, contents, requirement and the set up of conservation zone boundary etc. They published Plan Criterion on History and Culture Town conservation. However, in general, studies on town conservation are relatively narrow; the ideas are not board enough. There is a lack of agreement toward key issues, such as why we should conserve? And for whom? (Is conservation act of responsibility for ancestors? it is for today's need? or for tomorrow's development?). Moreover, there is only one conservation model; conservation system is still being explored and lack of in depth and systemic study. As we face the big changes of domestic economic and social environment and fast pace of the urbanization and modernization, many problems has arised. These problems includes the improvement of history and culture town's protection mechanism, slow progress on the setup of legislative code on the conservation of history and culture town, shortage of conservation fund, insufficient motivation, low public participation, uncontrolled administration and supervision and how to promote the persistent development. These issues formed the starting point of this thesis.The essence of Governance is through varied ways of vertical and horizontal management, so as to promote dialogue, coordination and corporation among the government, non-government organization, social group and public etc. all kinds of interest group in the town conservation.It suits to the social development trend of multi-layout, separate authority and respectable laws. Therefore, this thesis introduces the concept of governance, used the Suzhou historical and cultural town as example. It begins with the establishment of basic framework system ofgovernance of History and Culture Town study, focused on questions, seeks for the history and culture protection governance countermeasure and Suzhou history and culture protection step, tries to do the helpful complement towards the development and perfect on history and culture town protection mechanism to promote the sustainable development of history and culture town.