Historical and Cultural Values of the Modern Historic Parks in Tianjin - the British Concession
This paper takes the British concession in Tianjin as an example, trying to clarify the historical and cultural values of the first parks. The first park, Victoria Park, was built as a memorial facility. It received many visitors including Chinese, with numerous outdoor concerts providing the citize...
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| description | This paper takes the British concession in Tianjin as an example, trying to clarify the historical and cultural values of the first parks. The first park, Victoria Park, was built as a memorial facility. It received many visitors including Chinese, with numerous outdoor concerts providing the citizens with great enjoyment. Although there were conflicts between the Chinese and British, objectively, it greatly improved Tianjin′s landscape and provided a much healthier environment. The other parks in the British Extra Rural Extension were endowed with specific roles in creating an ideal city with light, air and spaces for recreation. The planning theories behind these parks pushed the modernizing process of Chinese cities. Besides, the parks brought new materials and new styles to Chinese traditional gardens, so they have high historical, cultural and academic value. Therefore, we suggest the government carry out a basic investigation and create a database of modern parks. The value of a park should be evaluated from both an urban planning aspect and the park itself. As for park conservation, the natural landform, spatial structure, visual organization, building, entrance space, wall, pavement, plants and relationship with its surroundings needs to be well evaluated. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-15dff9c7ee7a442c9fb23f9e046783db2023-08-03T09:15:32ZengTaylor & Francis GroupJournal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering1347-28522018-05-0117222122810.3130/jaabe.17.22112029182Historical and Cultural Values of the Modern Historic Parks in Tianjin - the British ConcessionBenyan Jiang0Yichen Liu1Guangzhou UniversityToyohashi University of TechnologyThis paper takes the British concession in Tianjin as an example, trying to clarify the historical and cultural values of the first parks. The first park, Victoria Park, was built as a memorial facility. It received many visitors including Chinese, with numerous outdoor concerts providing the citizens with great enjoyment. Although there were conflicts between the Chinese and British, objectively, it greatly improved Tianjin′s landscape and provided a much healthier environment. The other parks in the British Extra Rural Extension were endowed with specific roles in creating an ideal city with light, air and spaces for recreation. The planning theories behind these parks pushed the modernizing process of Chinese cities. Besides, the parks brought new materials and new styles to Chinese traditional gardens, so they have high historical, cultural and academic value. Therefore, we suggest the government carry out a basic investigation and create a database of modern parks. The value of a park should be evaluated from both an urban planning aspect and the park itself. As for park conservation, the natural landform, spatial structure, visual organization, building, entrance space, wall, pavement, plants and relationship with its surroundings needs to be well evaluated.http://dx.doi.org/10.3130/jaabe.17.221historic parksvaluesideal cityurban-scapepeople′s lives |
| spellingShingle | Benyan Jiang Yichen Liu Historical and Cultural Values of the Modern Historic Parks in Tianjin - the British Concession Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering historic parks values ideal city urban-scape people′s lives |
| title | Historical and Cultural Values of the Modern Historic Parks in Tianjin - the British Concession |
| title_full | Historical and Cultural Values of the Modern Historic Parks in Tianjin - the British Concession |
| title_fullStr | Historical and Cultural Values of the Modern Historic Parks in Tianjin - the British Concession |
| title_full_unstemmed | Historical and Cultural Values of the Modern Historic Parks in Tianjin - the British Concession |
| title_short | Historical and Cultural Values of the Modern Historic Parks in Tianjin - the British Concession |
| title_sort | historical and cultural values of the modern historic parks in tianjin the british concession |
| topic | historic parks values ideal city urban-scape people′s lives |
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