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Sustainable and Adaptive Re-use of the Old Industrial Buildings as Cultural Buildings in China

Wu Xiaoyu
Abstract
With the rapid expansion of the city in China, more and more old industrial buildings in cities become idle and abandoned. However, Old industrial buildings are carrying the history of a city and reflecting the urban development process so that renewal of the old industrial buildings has great value in the sense of cultural, aesthetic, ecological, economic, and sustainable development. How to reuse those buildings is worth studying. This paper, based on the principle of Adaptive Renewal and sustainable reuse, takes two typical successful cases to discuss how to reuse these old industrial buildings into culture ones in China.
Keywords
Adaptive Renewal, old industrial buildings, culture buildings, sustainable reuse
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