Continuing Community Spirit: Study on the Public Space of “Pu-Jing” Community in the Ancient City of Quanzhou
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2024
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Exploring and continuing the spiritual connotation of community public space is of great significance to shaping the place identity. "Pu-Jing", the grass-roots organisation system of Quanzhou during the Ming and Qing dynasties in China, created the “Pu-Jing” community, a governance unit that combined official administration and folk beliefs, and had a profound impact on the community public space system. The purpose of this study is to interpret the spatial characteristics and cultural connotations of public space in Pu-Jing community by analysing the spatial carriers and social factors. The research examines the compositions of the community public space, explores their spatial structure, and then summarised the formation logic and building ideas of the public space. The study reveals a public space system with the Jing Temple as the core, the streets and alleys as the link, and the belief realm as the unit was formed in Pu-Jing community under the combined effect of official management and civil autonomy, creating a stable sense of spatial domain for the residents' ritual and daily activities. The wisdom of place-making implied in the public space of Pu-Jing community provide inspiration for contemporary community governance.
Keywords: Community public space; spatial characteristics; place identity
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