| It can be found that most large cities are developed along the river by studying the urban development process. Water is not only necessary for people’s lives, but also the main transport means of the city when the ancient science and technology were less developed. In 2014, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal was successfully selected into the World Heritage List along with the West Lake becoming the "City Card of Hangzhou". However, in the progress of modern urban construction, Hangzhou, as a historical city, its features and thousands of years of cultural heritages are gradually being eroded. It has become a major issue for the development of Hangzhou that how to protect the historical and cultural space and make them play an important role in urban construction. Based on the above reasons, on behalf of Hangzhou City Planning Bureau, professor Dong Wei from school of Architecture of Southeast University conducted the research of "City and Architectural Forms based on Historical Information". In this paper, the background of this research expanded to explore the historical spatial integration approach of Hangzhou and the practical application in urban planning thereof.There are two research methods used in this paper. The first method is the urban cultural context integration, which starts with integrating the urban cultural context, and then sorts all kinds of complicated historical information according to historical clues in order to finally form several pieces of different unit context clues network by cities. The second method is the historical maps translation, which is to extract, classify, locate and correct the historical information in the historical maps, and in the form of spatial elements, to be expressed on the status of space topographic map in order to form the measurable digitized historical city maps. The historical spatial integration to major water space in Hangzhou was achieved through the above two methods.The results of Hangzhou historical spatial integration can be applied into the macro and meso level of urban planning. At the macro level, through historical spatial integration to construct the historical public landscape of the whole city, and applying it into the whole city design of Hangzhou could optimize the overall urban spatial structure and maximize the culture value of the historical and cultural resources. With respect to the meso level, the results of historical spatial integration could apply to area planning and planning management and construct the area evaluation system with the context of historical resources to determine the key areas of internal development of area and development pattern. At the same time, the GIS historical resources information database can be built to facilitate future use of planning and management. |
