The Productive Space of Hanzhengjie - A Case Study on the Clothing Workshops

There are lots of private workshops in Hanzhengjie district in the city of Wuhan. The productive line here is naturally divided into different part according to different procedure, which is separate from each other in the space. This paper focuses on the space of clothing workshop, which is the typical case. Then it minutely studies the existing environment as well as the correlation factor after getting plenty of details from a long-term filed investigation1. Furthermore it analyzes the mutual influences and the complicated relationships among the productive space (of clothing workshop), commercial and dwelling spaces. Finally it summarizes the characteristics of the productive space in HanZhengJie, and objectively argues that the production in Hanzhengjie is a special characteristic to be preserved at some extent.