Abstract
In the context of global urbanization, the construction of livable city has become a new path for domestic and foreign cities to cope with urbanization issues and adapt to the sustainable development of global cities. At present, highly urbanized megacities at home and abroad have opened an era of stock development, providing opportunities for the development of old town. As the most culturally vibrant area in the cities, the old town is not only the center of urban residence and commerce, but also a social form formed by the endogenous cohesion and exogenous driving force. The livable quality of the old town is improved It is an important embodiment of the city's realization of livable goal. However, in the process of livable city construction, it has brought about the improvement of the urban material space environment and hardware facilities, as well as social phenomena such as social structure changes, social class differentiation, lack of social sense of belonging. Therefore, it has become an important part of urban livable development to focus on people's social needs and analyze the improvement path of livable quality in old town from the social dimension. Based on the social dimension, this paper constructs an analytical framework for the improvement of livable quality in the old town of big city, and takes the old town of Wuhan as the research area, uses field investigation, interview, questionnaire and other methods to analyze the development dilemma faced by the old town of Wuhan. Studies have shown that the rapid expansion of Wuhan ’s cities has created a series of problems while promoting the renewal of the old town. For example, changes in social structure have led to conflicts between social resources and human needs, and the reconstruction of social relations has broken the original Some social stability and the shaping of urban characteristics have led to the loss of urban vitality in the old town. Based on this, based on the deep social reasons behind the improvement of livable quality in the old town, this paper proposes a research framework for the development of livability in the old town based on the social dimension, and mainly from four levels to build a path to improve the quality of livability of the old city based on the social dimension: first, return to livability value, promote social harmony and stability and cultural inheritance; Second, identify the key to livability, pay attention to people's social needs, and emphasize the dominant position of people in the old town; third, determine the goal of livability, reflect the humanistic spirit of the old town, and achieve stable, harmonious and livable development ; Fourth, build a livable path, mainly including: ①Innovation-driven development, promoting social structure optimization; ②Optimizes social space, reconstruction of social relations; ③Reshapes regional culture, continues the urban context; ④Establishes a multiple social governance system to realize the return of public life. Taking the Dong-ting old town of Wuhan as an empirical case, it discusses the specific path of improving the livable quality of the old town of big city: first, innovative implantation, promoting function optimization and quality improvement; second, shaping the characteristics, promoting the inheritance of traditional life and cultural integration; and finally , precise management and control, to achieve joint governance of multi-body linkage. This paper aims to promote the development of the old town into a livable space that meets people's spiritual and material needs by focusing on the social dimension of the livable development of the old town.
