TRANSFORMATION MECHANISM OF HISTORICAL URBAN FABRIC IN HANKOU, WUHAN

Proceedings of the XXV ISUF International Conference “Urban Form and Social Context: from Traditions to Newest Demands” (Krasnoyarsk, July 5–9, 2018)This article selects Hankou old town in Wuhan as the research object, summarizing the current situation of the historical urban texture. Then the author analyses the historical development and transformation mechanism of the urban texture from the traditional model to model of Chinese-Western integration, due to the intervention of western culture.And it will provide references to the future research on historical urban fabric. The historical analysis of the historical urban area of Hankou is the background of the whole study. This part analyzes the main historical events in the process of urban development in Hankou, and focuses on the historical and cultural elements related to the formation of urban fabric.Then based on the historical development of the area and the intervention of western culture, the transformation mechanism is revealed. Hankou can be seen as the ‘Chinese and Western Collage City’, so it has gradually formed a mixture of traditional Chinese urban fabric and Western fabric. The fabric of ancient urban area is irregular, and the fabric of modern urban area is regular geometry. These two kinds of urban fabric combined together, very harmonious and permeated each other.And finally it formed the present situation of the urban fabric in Hankou historical urban area. Therefore, the overall analysis of the characteristic of Hankou’s urban texture and transformation mechanism research of it can provide references for the related research and the repairing strategy of the texture in some old towns. This paper is subsidized by NSFC project which is named as . No.51678412. Thankful to the project owner Prof. LI Zhenyu who is the dean of College of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji University