Abstract
Northeastern University is one of the earliest national universities in modern China. In 1928, the Beiling Campus at Shenyang applied the American-style planning. But because of Japan’s invasion of Northeast China in 1931, the campus had to move south and borrowed old buildings to continue the education in Xi’an, Beiping, and Santai. After Japan was defeated, Northeastern University moved back to Shenyang in 1946 and built the South Lake campus in 1950. Four campus plans were independent in planning time and place, and there was no superposition of new and old campus planning, which could clearly reflect the campus planning features in China at that time. The purpose of the study was to take the planning changes of campus plan as a typical microcosm to explore the historical reasons for modern Chinese planning trends. The differences among American-style, transition period, and Soviet-style were concluded by comparing the construction time, architectural layout, axis organization, and functional zoning of the campus plans. This study revealed the historical motivation and the ideological change of campus planning of Northeastern University. The change in campus planning trends during this period is of great significance to interpret the formation of modern Chinese urban planning trends.
