Methodological Issues and Values Arising from the Construction of a Heritage Corridor Along Chinese Eastern Railway

• 来源期刊: 城市规划（英文版）
• 关键词: value assessment heritage corridor construction Chinese Eastern Railway methodological issues
• 年，卷（期）: 2016,（2）
• 页码范围: 8-17
• 页数: 10页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

The Chinese Eastern Railway (CER),which was designed by Russia in 1898 and constructed later by China,is a typical industrial cultural landscape of the 20th century that enjoys a high uniqueness and representativeness due to its integrality and systematicness.It sits on a historic site with various kinds of resources,including architecture,railways,and other facilities.As there has been few changes with CER's route,its resources are,in fact,still serviceable to the current railway system and people living along the route.However,considering the problems,such as lack of maintenance,ignorance of the society,inappropriate renovations,etc.,attention should be paid to CER's value assessment before any reconstruction decisions are made.Although value assessment plays a very important role in the decision-making and investment-planning process,there is almost no related research on the construction of a heritage corridor along CER.Seeing that value assessment is part of the CER Heritage Corridor construction project and the values act as a reference in understanding CER as a heritage site,this paper aims to put forward a methodological guidance to identify CER's values,so that its resources will be assessed by using what we call "value typology." In addition,it also tries to promote the tools that can help to evaluate CER's values.On the basis of a methodological analysis,it finally puts forward some advices to integrating the value assessment into the decision-making process.