Study On Strategies Of Organic Renewal Of Coastal Areas Of Old Cities

Waterfront exploration is becoming the focus of China's city construction. Among many other waterside cities, Qingdao Municipal and its residence are hoping to rebuild the waterfront of the old area or to develop new ones. With the increasingly solid economic base, the government is able to put on the agenda the renewal and redevelopment of waterfront areas. What's more, the government has realized that to develop waterfront areas can bring great opportunities to economic growth. Explorations of old waterfront areas, which are the golden areas of a city, can offer new choices to land use and reflect the economic transition, namely from manufacture-dominated economy to the balanced development of manufacture and service industry. Therefore, it is hoped to achieve the adjustment and transition of urban economy by rebuilding and redevelopment of urban land. In addition, the exploration of the old waterfront helps to enhance or even reshape the city image at the same time of providing more jobs.Successive development of the old urban waterfront is never to be easy. It entails social, economic, environmental, cultural considerations and needs to deal with such issues as land exploration, economic benefits, civil rights and urban historical and cultural heritage. From the perspective of urban development history and urban planning, this treatise is intended to achieve benign interaction between the renewal and redevelopment of the waterside areas and the reconstruction of old city, contributing the sustainable development of the previous urban waterside areas. The basis is urban physical space environment and the treatise refers to related theories on urban spatial structure and urban morphology. The structure of the treatise is as follows.The introductory part is mainly about the basis and meaning of this chosen topic, domestic and foreign research trend of urban waterfront exploration and thread, structure and researching methods of the treatise.The first chapter presents related conceptions of waterfront, its categories, historical development and current status of the research.The second chapter chooses representative theories as the academic support. Theories referred to includes:Mc Harg's design with nature theory, Kevin Lynch's the image of the city theory, sustainable development, old city preservation, city form, city structure and some other related theories.The third chapter analyzes factors for the success of the redevelopment of old urban waterfront. The factors contain land use, optimization of urban spatial morphology, environment protection, preservation of historical culture and related social and economic considerations. According to these factors, this part discusses the problems and reasons in China's current waterfront area development.The fourth chapter is the basic research and value assessment of the Small Harbor waterfront in Qingdao. With the formation of modern Qingdao City as the beginning, this part demonstrates the development of urban planning and urban construction of modern Qingdao and analyzes the changes and improvements of the small harbor area. Then objective value assessment is made on this area according to the field research.The fifth chapter gives the empirical study on the urban planning of small harbor development under the "Protection Along the Bay, Development Around the Bay for Qingdao " strategy. After weighing the pros and cons, this section presents what can be learned for the exploration of other coastal areas in China.The last chapter is the conclusion.