Historically Valued Process of Progress of Local Cities

Abstract

As an individual human being has his personal history, so does a rece its history and so does each region its background history.
In the light of the historical perspective, we may say that local cities of the earlier times served as the bases from which their present modern city forms have developed. In other words, the ancient cities, in whatever forms they used to take, must have been the foundations on which the modern cities have evolved.
Through a concrete grasp of the status of these cities in the ancient times, we may be able to project such concrete knowledge harmoneously into the present and future development of them.
In this respect, it is necessary to study the ancient local cities. By doing so, we may be able to have the developmental history of a city come into a sharper focus and eventually help develop the city based on its autonomous and independent functions to the extent that it meets the particular needs of the city.
In retrospect, there are many ancient cities which have been neglected in the recent national development in spite of the fact that they used to play vital roles as regional centers in politics, economy, administration and culture in the earlier times.
The reasons may be due to the changes in dynamics of international trade, communication, circulation of goods, etcf the fact that they used to play vital roles as regional centers in politics, economy, administration and culture in the earlis are not necessarily epressed at a single standard and often falter.
With the views of promoting regional characterization in the local city development policy in line with the rise of interests in “regional era”, this paper has emphasized that even a small scale regional development plan should take into account the background history of the city involved, by which not only the regional heterogeneity is respected but also the overal beauty of national development may be explored with for esights and deeper consideration.
These aspects are closely examined with concrete cases as backbone of the paper.