The Common Planning Values Identification of Modern Urban Heritage: World Heritage Cases Study and Its Implications
Abstract:
Regarding the theoretical and practical progress, modern urban heritage conservation remains a new territory in Chinese academia. From an international perspective and based on literature review, this paper interprets the connotation of urban heritage and modern urban heritage, elaborates research status, and selects eight projects for cases study from forty projects provided by ICOMOS published The Modern Movement in the World Heritage in 2018, analyzes the nomination documents of each project, summarizes the common planning values from universal and special perspectives, generalizes the ontological and external characteristics and thus obtains enlightenment from cognition, guidance and practical thinking. The aim of this paper is to deepen the understanding of modern urban heritage and its planning heritage value, while promoting mutual research development of urban heritage and planning heritage.