Study On Pubilc Participation Mechanism And Practice DuringArchitectural Heritage Conservationin Tianjin

With China’s rapid economic development and the accelerating urbanizationprocess, the contradictionbetween the "Conservation" and "Development" isbecoming more and more intensified. At the same time, the public’s democraticconsciousness and the rights consciousness are improving and the democratic societyis making progress. The priority principle of public interest during architecturalheritage conservation is being accepted by more and more people. The enthusiasm ofpublic participation in architectural heritage conservation is running higher and higher.This not only conformsto the international trend, but also responds to the call of thecountry.Public participation is an important sign of the progress about socialdemocracy.However, the public participation mechanism in architectural heritageconservation is not perfect in our country. A large number of architectural heritagesareconstantly being destroyed and disappeared during the urban reconstruction. Publicparticipation is facing a lot of difficulties, such as the lack of response mechanismbecause of the government’s self-interest trend, the lack of law relief mechanism, theslow development of the NGO and NPO, the disorderly enterprises participation, thephenomenon"Queen expert", the lack of public education and so on.Faced with the situation, this article makes research on the westerncountries’public participation mechanism firstly. According to the situation in ourcountry, the author makes analysis on the present situation and dilemma on publicparticipation to find out the inadequate.of the public participationmechanism and thenmake research and analysis on public participationmechanism of the architecturalheritage conservation mainly from the aspect of the law mechanisms, responsemechanisms and education systems with an interdisciplinary approach.Second, this article takespublic participationmovement of architectural heritageconservation in Tianjin for example whose process could be divided into theawakeningperiod,the developing period and the bottleneckperiod and make ananalysis on the process of the public participation in Tianjin by interviewing andinvestigating. The aim is to establish the public participation record duringarchitectural heritage conservation in Tianjin, in which the article makes special studyon the feasibility of theenterprise to participate the architectural heritage conservationand the advantage and social responsibility when the specialized state-owned enterprise participate the architectural heritage conservation.At the same time, the article tekes use of interdisciplinary study from theperspective of sociology, cultural economics, city management, law, history, heritageconservation. The pubilc participation mechanism duringarchitectural heritageconservationis a professional, complex social problem, so only a single subject cannot solve all the problems. From three aspects of the law mechanism, responsemechanism and education mechanism, the ultimate goal is to probe the way thatthe"top-down" and the "bottom-up" could be combined together to participate thearchitectural heritage conservation.