Chinese planning history methodology under interdisciplinary background
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2016
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The study on Chinese planning history is on the rise. In 2011 urban and rural planning was established as an independent first-level discipline in China. Accordingly, its secondary discipline - planning history – gained independence from architectural history and urban history. In November 2012, the Academic Committee of Urban Planning History and Theory was formally founded under the Committee of Urban Planning Society of China, bringing together scholars from various research fields focusing on studies of planning history and theory. With a growing diversity of the academic background of these scholars in recent years, the interdisciplinary feature of planning history increases. The participation of scholars in the field of history, law, sociology, geography and so on brings new research topics like “history of planning academics” and “legal history of planning”, greatly enriching the research contents and methods of planning history in China. The establishment and improvement of disciplines rely on the establishment of methodologies. Only subjects that have appropriate historical research methods guided by specific methodologies can be called history disciplines. Planning history study is no exception. However, against the backdrop of massive construction in China, Chinese planning study is more oriented to direct application values of planning practices rather than planning history research and its associated methodology. Additionally, Chinese historian FU Sinian’s view point – history is the historical materials and data - has exerted great influence on history and planning history study in China.
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Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
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