Community Renewal Strategy from the Perspective of Cultural Planning

A Case Study on Caohuajie Community in Chongqing

Abstract

This article proposes a community renewal strategy named ‘cultural restored, community repaired'. It aims to emphasize the interaction between culture and community, promotes community renewal quality through the use of culture, and promotes the culture development by community renewal. ‘cultural restored' is the core idea, include material culture restored, institutional culture restored, and spiritual culture restored, they can correspond to the methods of ‘community repaired', which are space network repaired, governance network repaired, and social network repaired. In this work, the author chooses Caohuajie community in Chongqing as a case, which already got renewed by using this strategy, to discuss the feasibility and effectiveness of this strategy.