The Modern Swatow In History

The Study of Modern Swatow In History is an historic study on urban spatial development.It focuses on the influence of structural factors in the urban development of the city in different development periods,and discusses the institutional and semi-institutional process of its modernization,which is based on the case study of Swatow.It also shows the locality in the modernization process due to its social autonomous nature.The reason to choose this research topic is because of the special history in urban construction and development of modern Swatow.Since the middle of the 19 th century,with the opening of treaty ports,the rise of international trades,Swatow turned from a coastal sandbar,a fishing and salt field,gradually to a modern city with international commercial value.Afterwards,been guided by social and political elites,it has become the pioneer of modern urban experiment with systematic and autonomous urban management and municipal improvements.It is at the forefront of the modernization from productive infrastructures,such as ports,stations,to social infrastructure like urban parks and urban buildings.Based on the above content,the full text is divided into four parts.Part one: The first chapter introduces the origin of the research topic,the study object and its significance,puts forward the core problems and their creative values.It also includes a review of global and domestic relevant researches.Part two:including the second chapter and the third chapter.The second chapter is geographic and historic background.The third chapter is describes and analyzes the details of three structural transformations.Part three: including the fourth chapter,the fifth chapter and the sixth chapter.It mainly expounds the dynamic mechanism of Swatow’s urban construction development from the perspective of three characteristics.In the fourth chapter,it analyzes Swatow’s expansion power of the city port bank,when Swatow was a modern port city without the concession.The fifth chapter is about the content,implementation and result of the modern planning.The important point is to find out the great effect of human cognition on ur ban development,through a dynamic history writing of clarifying key structural factors.The sixth chapter discusses the relationship between self – autonomous society and urban development from the aspects of urban level,public welfare and social organization.Part four: the contemporary.The last chapter is the summary and conclusions of the whole paper.