A Tentative Study On Suitable Approaches To Renewal Of Old Settlements Constructed In Xi'an In The 1980s

With the increasing urbanization in China, the rapid social and economic development has brought unlimited opportunities and powerful impetus to new city construction and old city renewal. The renovation of old settlements not only practically improving people's living conditions, but also enhancing urban overall image, and it is the necessary road in achieving sustainable development and building a harmonious community as well. The renovation of the old settlements based on and in the context of the urban organic renewal is also the inevitable choice in constructing the intensive society.The settlements constructed in Xi'an in the 1980s have been standing there for more than twenty years till now. Settlements completed in that time occupies a large share in the exsiting residential homes in Xi'an. These old buildings have a number of factors worth preserving in terms of building structure, location condition, cultural landscape, neighbourhood feeling and social networks. However, due to the limitation of settlement-building era, the insufficient infrastructure and supporting facilities in the old settlements as well as the unit space layout and equipment configuration has lost the ability to satisfy the demand of modern living. The research on renovations of old settlements aiming to facilitate better services for residents in modern society enjoys great value and significance both in theory and practice.In this context, the article above the old settlements in the 80's as the research object, in order to update the old settlements, ways to study the appropriateness of the theme, the concept of human settlements and methods, theory of sustainable development, organic renewal theory, organizations, regeneration, new urbanism, smart growth theory as a theoretical basis. First reviewed the relevant domestic and update the old settlements of theory and practice, to seek from the development of ways to update our old settlements, inspiration, and summarized the development of the old settlements, the nature and objectives update. Second, for 80 years in Xi'an of the last century the construction of the old settlements in the special historical background, the material from the old settlements and social morphology morphology both 80 years old settlements system features full advantage of the characteristics of the old settlements, summed up the problems the old settlements and contradictions, and cell renewal and transformation through the Cao Yang empirical exploration update the old settlements, the development of appropriate pathways. Again, from the creation of livable the viewpoint of the community, summed up the different perspective of the old settlements updated model, and concluded on this basis the system for 80s of last century update of the suitability of the old settlements ways. Finally, the renewal theory attached to the practice of carriers, will update the specific way, for residential construction, residential environment, community building and social networks, and many other sports updates and maintenance of specific operational measures, and make the old settlements updateprinciples should be adhered to for 80 practical ways to update the old settlements provide sufficient basis.