The Research On Tianjin’s Concessions Ceography In Modern Times

Tianjin was built by the military affairs and sprung up as grain transporting. In modern times, it has become the largest industrial and commercial city in the north. The development of modern Tianjin has an inseparable connection with the establishment of concessions, just as Mr. Luo Shuwei claimed:"Concessions have thickly covered the yesterday of Tianjin." Although the predecessors had studied a lot about Tianjin’s concessions, this paper takes international settlement geography of Tianjin as a breakthrough point and viewing angle, focusing on the concession location and urban morphology.First of all, this paper describes the delineation, expansion and recovery of international settlements in Tianjin, obtaining a general understanding of Tianjin’s concessions. Secondly, it discusses the reasons to their locations and divides three periods based on the designated dates of concessions, including early, middle and late. Moreover, it also classifies the reasons into general reasons and special ones in various periods. Thirdly, it elaborates and tries to disclose the external morphologies and factors of international concessions. Through the analysis of data, it works out the evolutions that the delineated concessions have influenced on the expansion of urban space and its trends in Tianjin. Fourthly, it focuses on the analysis of different urban function divisions in the inner cities of various concessions, and then summarizes their causes of formation. Based on this, it makes out the evolution of core area during the process of modern urban development from the Ming Dynasty to now.Fifthly, the conclusion of the whole paper, it points out the nature of modern concessions in Tianjin, the concession development and achievements to the transformation of the old city, expounding the development of concessions and its contributions to motivate the reconstruction of old city and to the construction of Hebei new district, then, it further summarizes that the concessions have promoted the formation of modern city of Tianjin.