A Historical Study On Development And Paradigm Of Shenzhen City Planning

This case study comes from the project of the excellent youthful teacher of Ministry of Education, the historical study on paradigms of Chinese early-modern city planning. Through the perspective of history, the paper puts great emphasis on analyzing the development of Shenzhen city planning and the establishment of the planning making system and management system, probing into the influence of modern city planning of western countries, Hong Kong, and China on Shenzhen, and studying the origin and application of the paradigm in Shenzhen city planning. It discovers that during the process of "imitating, transformation, assimilating, finalizing and forming its own culture", Shenzhen city planning experienced transformation from "technicality" to "institution". Thus it proves again that "planning institution" is both the essence of early-modern and modern city planning. At the same time, only seeking the suitable way for local development and centering on society, politics and economy, can the city find its real outlet.The paper consists of six chapters. The first chapter is introduction, which describes the objective of this study. Through the analysis and investigation, the thesis tries to reveal the historical phase, the style, the character and the paradigm in the history of Shenzhen city planning and summarizes the lesson of its planning practice. Thus it tries to search the way for the reform of Chinese city planning and provide historical and theoretical evidences for the future development of Shenzhen. The research adopts methods of "time ordinate"& "transverse compare".The second chapter through the perspective of the history of city formation, first describes the development and change of Shenzhen before reform and openness; then analyses the impetus of formation and development of Shenzhen city from two aspects of both immanent cause and exogenous cause; last explains the evolvement of spacial layouts.The third and forth chapters are the main body of the paper. Based on its own character and the change of Chinese politics, economy and society, the paper defines the historical phases of Shenzhen city planning, reviews the course and content of each phases, and studies the establishment of Shenzhen city planning system.The fifth chapter compares Shenzhen city planning with western countries, Hong Kong and Chinese and studies the paradigm and the paradigm shift in it. Thus makes the historical research deepen into the theoretical research.Based on above analyses, the sixth chapter makes a conclusion, which summarizes the evolvement of city planning and makes a vista of future development in Shenzhen.The paper purposes to gain an apocalypse from the study, provides a reference for the reform of Chinese city planning and Shenzhen future city planning and construction, thus makes the study has practical significance.