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Respecting, retaining, recreating: The successful renovation of the Beijing 751 D-Park
Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal,
18
(1),
28-39
(2024)
Abstract
Post-industrial sites in Chinese cities are being redeveloped as catalysts for urban regeneration and economic development. Calling the shift from ‘Made in China’ to ‘Created in China’, the Chinese government is encouraging the development of the creative industry to transform post-industrial sites. Successful examples of city renewal projects provide examples of this strategy, tuning into the creative cultures and industrial heritage of these cities and offering platforms for creative enterprises to flourish. This paper describes a recently funded renovation project, Beijing 751 D-Park, which has been undertaken to analyse these opportunities, and offers the initial findings of a case study. It unlocks the development process of the renovation project in terms of its philosophy, design method and planning strategy.
Keywords: urban regeneration; industrial heritage; aged-factory transformation; human-centred design; culture value
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Author's Biography
Fang Bin Guo holds BA/MSc/PhD degrees in industrial design. He is a Reader in Industrial Design and teaches the BSc course in product design engineering and supervises PhD students’ research at Liverpool John Moores University. His research focuses on high design education; human-centred design in contemporary digital and maritime industries; and urban regeneration, in particular the study of human factors and cognitive ergonomics and its application in new product development. He has undertaken a number of funded projects received from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Newton Fund, Innovate UK, Maritime Research and Innovation UK (MarRI-UK), International Association of Maritimer Universities (IAMU) and European Union’s Horizon 2020 where he led an international cross-disciplinary team in his research endeavours.
Yonggang Wang is a Chinese designer associated with the Idea Latitude/Urban Planning and Design Institute in Beijing, China.
