| Ahmedabad,located in Gujarat,Western India,is one of the major historical cities in India.This city was born from the development of ancient settlements,trade and political expansion of Islam.It experienced the construction of Delhi Sultan period,the prosperity of the Mughal period,the chaos of the Maratha period,the social and economic reorganization of the British colonial period,and the modernization development after independence.The influencing factors of urban development in different periods are different.Therefore,it is of great typicality to take Ahmedabad as an example to study the urban development of feudal rule since the late Middle Ages in India and South Asia.Meanwhile,the historic city of Ahmedabad is the first city in India to be listed as a World Heritage Site.Its 600-year-old old city witnessed the political,economic,social and cultural changes.Unlike other Indian cities that used to demolish or discard the old cities,Ahmedabad has retained its original structure.It not only has important historical value,but also helps us to analyze the spatial,social,economic,and cultural structures and evolution mechanisms through the studying of spatial elements and crowd activities.This thesis takes Ahmedabad and its historic city as the research object,to analyze the evolution process of its spatial form and structure,and to clarify its development process,characteristics and value.It mainly conducts research from three levels: First,it summarizes the development of Ahmedabad in each period from a macro perspective,and analyzes its overall urban network by studying the functions and status,as well as the impact of urban changes in the political,economic,social and other aspects.It emphasizes the ways of urban classification,trade industry,and social division under the influence of different period which mainly include Islamic rule,British colonialism,independent republic.Secondly,it analyzes the construction strategy of the historic city in different periods from a meso perspective.It summarizes the characteristics from the five aspects of roads,borders,areas,nodes,and landmarks.It summarizes its construction model and morphological evolution trajectory,and analyzes the effects of politics,economy,and society on urban elements,and systematically sort out the urban constituent elements under the continuous evolution of hundreds of years.Then,it studies the space of authority,commercial,residential functions from both architectural and grouping level.It analyzes them from the perspective of rheological politics,religion and activities.Based on the above,it summarizes the structural evolution characteristics and mechanism of Ahmedabad and the value of the spatial form of historic city,so as to provide a reference for the research and subsequent protection of historical city in India and South Asia. |
