A Comparative Study Of Renewal Models For The Preservation And Inheritance Of Cultural Heritage In Urban Villages

As a special phenomenon arising from the urbanisation process in China,urban villages are a difficult and key area for urban renewal.Since the beginning of the 21 st century,various provinces and cities have been trying and practising the transformation of urban villages one after another,and have made certain achievements.The two main modes of urban village transformation are "comprehensive transformation" and "micro-renovation".At present,most of the urban village renovation projects focus on the renewal and upgrading of the physical environment,often neglecting the excavation of the cultural heritage value of urban villages,and lacking attention to the protection of cultural heritage resources in urban villages.On the other hand,the regeneration of urban villages brings opportunities and challenges for cultural heritage conservation.Urban villages evolve from traditional villages,which are often rich in tangible and intangible cultural heritage,and their conservation and revitalisation is a hot topic for urban regeneration and development research.This paper takes urban village regeneration and transformation models as variables to compare the impact and pathways of different regeneration models on the preservation and transmission of cultural heritage in urban villages,and to explore strategies for the preservation of cultural heritage in urban village transformation,which is very important and necessary.This paper takes the cultural heritage of urban villages as the object of study,and selects Hunt Village and Huangpu Ancient Village,both of which were "fully transformed" in Guangzhou,as two typical cases to analyse the mechanism and effectiveness of the conservation of cultural heritage in urban villages under different regeneration modes.Firstly,this paper compares the current state of research on urban regeneration and cultural heritage conservation at home and abroad,and collates the main results of the current urban village renovation model in Guangzhou as the basis of this paper’s theoretical research.The methodology of narrative space is introduced to explore its applicability to the cultural heritage of urban villages,and a theoretical research framework is constructed in which the three elements of "regeneration model-narrative space-cultural heritage of urban villages" are interlinked.Secondly,the research was conducted through literature,field research and interviews to collect and collate cultural heritage resources in urban villages.The spatial analysis of point patterns is used to analyse the changes in the narrative space of cultural heritage before and after the transformation,and to explore the conservation and revitalisation paths of cultural heritage in urban villages under different renewal modes in terms of both tangible and intangible cultural heritage,pointing out the differences in the conservation and revitalisation of cultural heritage in urban villages under different renewal modes.The paper finds that the regeneration mode has an uneven impact on the preservation of tangible and intangible cultural heritage in urban villages,with the comprehensive transformation of Hunt Village expanding the scale of social impact of intangible cultural heritage while eliminating the traditional street texture and spatial pattern of buildings;the micro-renovation of Huangpu Ancient Village has led to the integration of cultural preservation with the tourism industry,resulting in a weakening of community.Finally,in the light of the problems facing the protection of cultural heritage in the urban village transformation of Guangzhou,a triadic structure of "space-event-people" is constructed,drawing on narrative space theory and urban design theory.It is hoped that it will provide theoretical support and suggestions for the preservation and transmission of cultural heritage in urban village transformation in China.