Discussions on Preservation of Cultural Heritage Versus Development and Renewal of the Ancient City of Liaocheng

摘要

The old town of Liaocheng has followed the typical pattern of a township dating back to the Song Dynasty, which is formed by the mix of elements including Liaocheng's geographical features, its social-economic and cultural background and its history of human settlement activities, and is defined by of the formation of human habitation, featuring with significant geographical and cultural characteristics of a river town north of the Yellow River and being an important component of the historical and cultural heritage resources in western Shandong Province.As modern economic development goes on, while Liaocheng is about to initiate its renewal development of the core area and the surrounding area of the old town, how to deal with the relationship between its cultural inheritance versus urban development would be a very urgent and practical problem throughout the whole process of heritage preservation for historical street districts and urban development.In this paper, within the context of urbanization, preservation of historical and cultural heritage of the canal in the ancient city of Liaocheng versus the development and renewal of its old town are studied and explored about, combing through the developmental threads of this ancient city with the hope of providing some valuable lessons for preservation issues around other ancient towns.