What is an urban renewal project?

Urban renewal project is a necessary and planned transformation activity for areas in the city that have not adapted to modern urban social life.

1In August, 958, the first seminar on urban renewal was held in the Netherlands, which expounded that people living in cities have different expectations and dissatisfaction with their buildings, surrounding environment or life activities such as tourism, shopping and entertainment.

Repair and transform the house where you live, and improve the environment such as streets, parks, green spaces, and unhealthy communities. It is required to implement them as soon as possible to form a comfortable living environment and a beautiful city appearance. Urban construction activities including all these contents are urban renewal.

The purpose of urban renewal is to demolish, transform, invest and build a decaying area in the city, and replace the decaying material space with brand-new urban functions to make it develop and prosper again. It includes two aspects: on the one hand, it is the transformation of objective entities (buildings and other hardware).

On the other hand, it is the transformation and continuation of various ecological environment, spatial environment, cultural environment, visual environment and recreation environment. , including the continuation and renewal of neighborhood social network structure, psychological set, emotional attachment and other software. In Europe and America, urban renewal originated from the transformation of bad residential areas after World War II.

Later, it was extended to the transformation of other functional areas of the city, focusing on the areas in the city where land use functions need to be transformed. The goal of urban renewal is to solve urban problems that affect or even hinder urban development. These urban problems have both environmental reasons and economic and social reasons.