2007 Volume 6 Issue 2 Pages 67-73
The economic reform of the past few decades has physically transformed China's cities. The private ownership of real estate property has been rising gradually from the long sustained years in socialist ownership policy after 1949, and the transformation of property ownership in the urban area influenced the system of urban development. This paper focuses on policy reorientation of the restoration plan in the historical cultural areas in Beijing, China, which explores how to carry out the restoration planning from a new viewpoint of promotion of public participation that has been stipulated in the text of a new ordinance of Beijing government (2003). As a result of this study, this paper indicates possibility of the new introduction of subsidy system for restoration to Beijing local government, which is referred to the case of the historical townscape preservation in Japan.