A MODERN URBAN PARK PRODUCED BY THE COMPLEX SOCIAL RELATIONS OF CHINESE CITY IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC OF CHINA: JIANGBEI PARK IN CHONGQING, CHINA, 1927
Abstract
This article aims to study the intrinsic relationship between the complex social relations in the urban space of Chongqing, China in 1927, and the spatial characteristics of Jiangbei Park, which is based on Lefebvre's view that "Space is permeated with social relations; it is not only supported by social relations, but it is also producing and produced by social relations." So, the result research in the paper mainly involves two aspects: 1). The complex social relationship in the urban space of China and Chongqing in 1927, both of them were in the period of turbulent social change. 2). How Jiangbei Park, as a new type of space symbolizing urban modernization, was produced by the social relations and what unique spatial characteristics it presented. The data of the above two aspects are collected from the historical literature and historical images, such as the documents of Chongqing government during the warlord period and the Republic of China period. From the theories of urban sociology, landscape design and spatial design, the data analysis in the article is according to the social relations, motivation, and construction process of Jiangbei Park, as well as the spatial characteristics of the park, such as its space pattern, functional planning, and landscape imagery. Thus, the paper reveals the mutual relationship between the complex social relations in the urban space of China and Chongqing in 1927, and the spatial characteristics of Jiangbei Park, with the former molded the latter, while the spatial characteristics of the latter profoundly represented the complexity of the former.
Keyword : Modern urban park / Chinese urban modernization / The production of space / Jiangbei Park / Jiangbeicheng, Chongqing, China
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