Germany, Accounting For A Period Of Qingdao Urban Planning

The important period in the history of Qingdao is during it is occupied by Germany. In this period, the colonizer decreed and actualized 1900's "Qingdao's City Planning" and 1910's "Qingdao's Outspread City Planning", the planning incarnated the entire process that from formulation to implement, Under the guidance in the planning Qingdao achieved the transformation from village to city.In 1900's "Qingdao's City Planning", German used different programming in European Area and Chinese Area. In the Functional zoning, roads, construction, etc of European Area was better than Chinese Area, which incarnated strong colonial characteristic. The colonizer used natural factors, noticed protecting zoology, and put the construction of infrastructure in the first position. With the increasing of the population and Social Function, the colonizer decreed 1910's "Qingdao's Outspread City Planning". It cancelled the provision of "the different programming in European Area and Chinese Area" and the whole city expands to the north. The planning was interrupt by the First World War, but the development pattern of North-South strip became an obstacle in Qingdao's development. Qingdao was German's military base and business port in the early period, had strong Military port culture and marine culture. Its architecture reflects the typical Western culture and colonial culture, so that Qingdao has a European cityscape. Along with the planning of the German colonists, Qingdao has become an important undertaking of Chinese and Western culture and meeting point. For Qingdao, this time, the planning that the German colonists invoked the concept of Western art and technology, according to the characteristics of the natural environment of Qingdao is comprehensive and meticulous, the urban culture that embodied in the planning, as well as the emergence of planning in road traffic, zoning present-day issues, are still enlightening to today's urban planning and construction.