Protection and Development of the Famous Historical and Cultural Cities

The city famous for its historical and cultural associations is typical representative form of the accumulation of history and culture. With the rapid development of the city today, the protection of the city famous for its historical and cultural associations is in an extraordinary period. The key point of the destiny of the city famous for its historical and cultural associations is depending on how to unify protection and development organically. With regard to the city planning department and constructing department, returning to nature protection and exploiting new area development are good idea and practical pattern. The idea of returning to nature protection mainly depends on “five origins” — the protection of “native street”, “original address”, “native nation”, “original form”, and “original quality”. On the basis of such a protection idea of returning to nature, the practical development of the city famous for its historical and cultural associations includes integrated protection of the historical streets and residences outside, the modernization inside as well; protecting ancient city proper while exploiting new city proper; updating ancient cities' renovation organically; establishing some methods and measures, such as a relative perfect protection system which is classified according to different categories, etc.