Study on Urban Form Changes and Urban Transformation of Modern Luoyang(1910s-1960s)
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description: Urban history is a precious memory of urban development. Especially in the context of China’s rapid development today, sorting out, reviewing, and interpreting urban history from different perspectives can provide necessary references for current urban preservation work. Luoyang, as the birthplace of Chinese civilization, has a long history as a capital city. Although Luoyang gradually declined into an ordinary Prefecture-level city after the Song Dynasty, it regained development in the modern period. specially during the period from the 1910s to the 1960s, for nearly half a century, Luoyang underwent two instances of “building a ew urban area near the old part of the city” under the background of militarization and industrialization. This not only formed the modern urban spatial layout of Luoyang but also enabled Luoyang to transition from a traditional agricultural city to a military and political center, and then to a socialist industrial city, achieving a leap from a pre-modern city to a modern city. The unique development process created the distinctive characteristics of modern Luoyang’s spatial layout. Studying this process helps to eveal the development and transformation of modern Luoyang and provides reference for current urban construction in Luoyang. Urban form is the projection of urban development history in the material space of the city. The formation of urban morphological regions varies according to different historical contexts. Changes in the elements of urban morphology, as well as their increase and decrease, can directly reflect the process of urban development. Analyzing this process can transcend the technical dimension and further involve changes in social life. This dissertation establishes the “Historyurban form -Transformation” analytical framework, with history as the basis and morphology as the intermediary, to discuss the urban transformation and social changes in modern Luoyang. In the two urban construction practices of “building a …
abstract: Urban history is a precious memory of urban development. Especially in the context of China’s rapid development today, sorting out, reviewing, and interpreting urban history from different perspectives can provide necessary references for current urban preservation work. Luoyang, as the birthplace of Chinese civilization, has a long history as a capital city. Although Luoyang gradually declined into an ordinary Prefecture-level city after the Song Dynasty, it regained development in the modern period. specially during the period from the 1910s to the 1960s, for nearly half a century, Luoyang underwent two instances of “building a ew urban area near the old part of the city” under the background of militarization and industrialization. This not only formed the modern urban spatial layout of Luoyang but also enabled Luoyang to transition from a traditional agricultural city to a military and political center, and then to a socialist industrial city, achieving a leap from a pre-modern city to a modern city. The unique development process created the distinctive characteristics of modern Luoyang’s spatial layout. Studying this process helps to eveal the development and transformation of modern Luoyang and provides reference for current urban construction in Luoyang. Urban form is the projection of urban development history in the material space of the city. The formation of urban morphological regions varies according to different historical contexts. Changes in the elements of urban morphology, as well as their increase and decrease, can directly reflect the process of urban development. Analyzing this process can transcend the technical dimension and further involve changes in social life. This dissertation establishes the “Historyurban form -Transformation” analytical framework, with history as the basis and morphology as the intermediary, to discuss the urban transformation and social changes in modern Luoyang. In the two urban construction practices of “building a …
author: Junxian Wu
language: eng
keywords: Settore CEAR-09/A - Composizione architettonica e urbana
date published: 2025
date modified: 2026-07-24T03:50:35Z
provider: Politecnico di Torino
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
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source organization: Politecnico di Torino

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value: https://hdl.handle.net/11583/2999906

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value: 10.13121/polito/porto/2999906