Laura Pezzetti |

Open spaces as the key to the integration issue of historical site reconstruction projects: a cross‑cultural comparison

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Keywords

Open space, Reconstruction, Historical sites, Integration

Author contributions

Qian Liu collected materials of the two projects through site visiting and archival research and wrote the main texts of the comparative analysis.
Yiran Liu conducted the literature review, contributed to preparing the drawings and editing the texts.
Laura Pezzetti supervised the research and contributed to the analysis of the Yanghe Tower project.

Key figures

Dom-Römer area, view from the Dom tower in 1988 (Source: Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-F078972-0001/CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5472041)

Yanghe Tower area, roof plans. Left: 1960, when the wooden hall was destroyed; Middle: 2008, before reconstruction; Right: 2018, after reconstruction (Source: the author based on DOQs from the U.S. Geological Survey and Google Earth images)

Dom-Römer area, roof plans. Above-left: 1862; Above-right: 2010, before reconstruction; Below: after reconstruc tion (Source: the author, based on public domain maps from Ravensteins Geographische Verlagsanstalt, and Google Earth images)

The simplified courtyard and its public space in North China’s small cities: significance, threats, and opportunities

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Keywords

Simplified courtyard; Public space; Urban regeneration

Conference

This paper was presented as a poster at the 35th Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) Annual Congress, themed “Integrated Planning in a World of Turbulence”, held in Łódź, Poland, from July 11 to 15, 2023.

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Author contributions

Qian Liu conceptualised the research, collected materials, made the drawings and wrote the main texts.
Laura Pezzetti supervised the research and critically revised the manuscript.

Key figures

The evolution of courtyard houses in Zhengding; phase c is the Simplified Courtyard

The open spaces in the central area of Zhengding , a comparison between the situation in 1966 (top left), 2002 (top right), and 2020 (bottom).

Role of public spaces between built heritage and living city: the case of Changle Gate in Zhengding, China

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Keywords

Public spaces; Built heritage, Zhengding; China; Changle Gate; tourism

Conference

This paper was presented orally at the 34th Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) Annual Congress, themed “Space for Species: Redefining Spatial Justice”, held in Tartu, Estonia, from July 25 to 29, 2022.

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Author contributions

Qian Liu conceptualised the research, collected materials, made the drawings and wrote the main texts.
Laura Pezzetti supervised the research and critically revised the manuscript.

Key figures

Changle Gate, layout restored in 2013-2019.

Expansions of the city of Zhengding.

Tourism-boosting rebuilding of historic buildings and urban form: the case study of Yanghe Tower and its urban morphology in Zhengding, China

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Keywords

Rebuilding; Yanghe Tower; Zhengding; Urban form; Tourism

Conference

This paper was presented orally at the XXVIII International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF), themed “Urban Form and the Sustainable and Prosperous City”, held in Glasgow, UK, from June 29 to July 03, 2021.

Author contributions

Qian Liu conceptualised the research, collected materials, made the drawings and drafted the manuscript.
Laura Pezzetti drafted the manuscript, supervised the research and critically revised the manuscript.

Key figures

Map from Zhengding Gazetteer dated 1646, showing the urban axes and two symmetric square blocks

The ‘city for tourists’ and the ‘axes for tourists’, showing the remaining heritages sites in Zhengding