NEW AVENUE FOR URBAN CONSERVATION IN CHINA UNDER NEW AGENDA OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT BASED ON ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

摘要

Urban conservation has become increasingly important for cities.Especially in cities under rapid development urban heritage conservation has now been frequently used as an urban tool to revive the decayed urban areas under various contexts.Under these transitional social and economic contexts,recent decades have witnessed the evolving values of heritage,the shifting paradigms of urban conservation doctrines,and the emerging appeals for sustainable development.This paper reveals the ever-increasing relevance of urban conservation to urban development and examines the evolution of the doctrine of heritage conservation with a perspective of changing development contexts worldwide; and with contextualizing heritage conservation in Chinese cities,this paper addresses the research potentials of sustainable development,especially in the dimension of social sustainability as new avenue for an integrated urban conservation approach.