Cultural Heritage and Adaptive Reuse in Rural Urban Contemporary China. The interest for the western methodologies and the peculiarity of the Chinese issues
From the early 90s several Chinese cities engaged transformation embodying
in architecture, public space and urban texture, the physical evidence of the
expectations and contradictions originated and breed by the reforms initiated in
the late 1970s. The idea and the meaning of cultural heritage has been evolving
since then in Chinese architectural culture through central government reforms
and private initiatives managing the reconstruction of national identity within a