A Vision for Future Development in Historic District: Greenway Planning, Green Infrastructure Adaptation and Landscape Design in Historic Districts of US and China

Authors

Yiwei Huang, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7275/fabos.768

Publication Date

2012

Abstract

This paper is trying to explore the future development for historic district. “Historic districts” talked in this paper are mostly part of modern cities and have valuable architectures and profuse cultural backgrounds. These historic districts now are legally protected by policies and also by the government, and most of those are involving supremely significant green spaces or greenway systems which can also date hundreds of years ago. However, some of them are still facing serious problem of losing the green patterns of the city and therefore become a scattered puzzle of urban open space system; and some others facing the problem of building facilities decomposed and keep distant to fulfill urban sustainable development. So whether, greenway planning can be adapted to the future development of these historic districts, and can green infrastructure adaptation make their functions to turn the communities green and sustainable? These are the research questions this paper will discuss.

The two study sites that the paper will discuss are Back Bay historic district in Boston, Massachusetts in US and former Concession in Wuhan, China.

Recommended Citation

Huang, Yiwei (2012) "A Vision for Future Development in Historic District: Greenway Planning, Green Infrastructure Adaptation and Landscape Design in Historic Districts of US and China," Proceedings of the Fábos Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning: Vol. 4: Iss. 1, Article 41.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7275/fabos.768
Available at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/fabos/vol4/iss1/41