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作者

Xiaohong Tan;Uwe Altrock;Sonia Schoon;Juan Zhao

来源

HABITAT INTERNATIONAL,Vol.83,P.73-84

语言

英文

关键字

Knowledge;Urban village;Place-making;Xiasha village;Urban regeneration strategy;Problem framing

作者单位

School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Guangdong University of Technology, China;Department of Urban Regeneration and Planning Theory, University of Kassel, Germany;University of Applied Languages Munich, Germany;School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Guangdong University of Technology, China;Department of Urban Regeneration and Planning Theory, University of Kassel, Germany;University of Applied Languages Munich, Germany

摘要

This paper aims at scrutinizing the influence of knowledge utilization on the actors' interplay and self-organized localized regeneration of an urban village in China, thereby developing alternatives to simple demolition and redevelopment approaches. In particular, it investigates a bottom-up place-making initiative for the upgrading of Xiasha village in Shenzhen. The case study shows how an urban village may take advantage of its favorable location factors by gradually and relatively carefully upgrading its built environment and developing its assets as profitably as possible at the same time. Despite its crucial role in understanding the regeneration of urban villages, the knowledge dimension is still absent from the respective debates in China. In the case of Xiasha, local, institutional and technical knowledge of stakeholders’ rationalities, behavior and interpretations were utilized simultaneously and strategically. Technical knowledge contributed to the idea of a spacious central square; institutional knowledge enabled its implementation; and local knowledge allowed to give symbolic meaning and local identity to the place by making strong use of traditions, historic memories and cultural values when designing the layout and the furniture of the square and its surroundings. Traditional local culture and festivals even experienced a renaissance. With an increasing awareness of the importance of urban villages as living space, more careful and gradual approaches towards upgrading urban villages are needed notwithstanding the low quality and serious urban problems that are very often found in them. The case study shows that the way knowledge is used may serve as a role model for urban village regeneration during high-speed urbanization in China, instead of resorting to simplistic developer-led, socially exclusive models of renewal.