英文摘要 |
This research aims at comparing how the horizontally distributed historic heritage sites and vertically layered ones influence contemporary urban development, conservation practice, and the creation of cityscape. This article explores how such paired spatial configuration, either horizontality or verticality, shapes historic urban landscape. Xi’an and Rome are chosen to make this comparison. Xi’an is a city with several ancient heritage conservation areas scattering horizontally while Rome’s urban relics are layered vertically throughout history. Similar experiences of rise and fall left the two cities with rich ancient relics that were obstructions to modernization but nonetheless monopoly resources for development. Longing eagerly for revival, both of them coincidentally adopt the same strategy of capitalizing on the cities’ splendid past to nurture cultural tourism. Based on archives, maps, planning documents, and on-site empirical research, this article analyzes the formation of such two types of heritage sites, scrutinizes the transformation of conservation methodologies, and demonstrates how these two sets of spatial particularities had influenced and shaped the image of the cities. This article thus identifies two ways of ""spatializing temporalities."" Horizontally distributed heritage sites and adjacent areas in Xi’an had been demarcated and labeled individually to guide certain architectural styles. The sense of historical periods was accordingly materialized and located on the map. Rome’s superimposed urban history was illustrated in the historical stratigraphy and the collage of relics dated back to various periods. |