A Study on Strategies for Protection and Revitalization of Historic Streets from the Perspective of Cultural Genes(Meme): Focusing on West Guan Historic Street in Guangzhou, China
Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: The historical and cultural district is a material medium that inherits cultural genes, which are the endogenous engines of urban space, and directly preserves urban history, and its protection and activation are very important.However, as the historical and cultural district has recently been threatened by inappropriate restoration measures and the increase in formal preservation and management cases, how to find the balance between cultural gene preservation and urban development has emerged as an urgent issue.Guangzhou's West Building History District has unique and rich cultural characteristics and is of high cultural value as it contains urban culture and history intact.To this end, this study presented views and perspectives on the protection and transmission of cultural genes through the identification and in-depth analysis of the Guangzhou West Building History District.The scope and method of this study were defined by describing the background and purpose of the study and referring to related domestic and international theoretical studies.Then, the contents and principles of the Guangzhou Library's historical street protection, and the cultural genetic points of the regeneration of the historical district were explained in detail.Furthermore, the problems in the process of protection and activation were summarized through a field survey of the Guangzhou west guan History District.Finally, a strategy for protecting, transmitting, and activating cultural genes was proposed by combining the cultural gene characteristics of the Guangzhou Library historical street.This study is meaningful in that it presented strategies for the protection, transmission, and activation of historical and cultural districts reflecting cultural genetic characteristics through in-depth analysis of the Guangzhou West History District.
Authors: Hong Ming Li, Min Lee
Institution: Kookmin University
Language: English
Subfield: Urban Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4221043216