ABSTRACT
Tourism has brought huge economic benefits for the historical cities since China established historical and cultural city conversation system. Therefore, many historical cities that were damaged by a variety of reasons in the past have started to rebuild the ancient city. However, because the fundamental aim of this sort of rebuild is the pursuit of economic benefits rather than inherit historical culture, the “rebuild” work usually use modern materials and technology, and then add some historic symbols of its most prosperous period. The cities that
1 INTRODUCTION
Since China’s reform and opening up in 1978, China’s urbanization rate risen rapidly from 17.92% in 1978 to 53.73% in 2013, this growth indicates that, over the past 35 years, plenty of rural lands turn into city construction, the emerging cityscape have had great impact on China’s historical cultural heritage conservation. Except those were announced as cultural relics protection units or historical buildings, there still exist massive traditional dwellings or settlements which have no “titles” that haven’t draw public attention. These heritages existed in China’s villages and towns, however, were “forced” to get into the cities. Without official titles which bring legal protection, these heritages are likely to be destroyed by the new construction in city, or been deserted due to the extensive city growth.
