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Moving Urban Sculptures towards Sustainability: The Urban Sculpture Planning System in China

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  • Zhe Liu

    (School of Architecture, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
    Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium)

  • Pieter Uyttenhove

    (Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium)

  • Xin Zheng

    (School of Architecture, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China)

Abstract

Following the continuous development characterized by large-scale constructions, Chinese urban development has shifted to the promotion of refined urban space quality. Urban sculpture, an important part of public arts, has been receiving increased attention in China as an important carrier for highlighting urban characteristics, culture, and history within cultural policies. As a type of cultural capital, it offers innovative methods to address the issues of economic, social, and environmental sustainability, in particular cultural sustainability. Interdisciplinary theories of urban planning are creatively applied to guide, coordinate, and improve the sustainable production of urban sculptures in China. This research was initiated to: (1) Illustrate how urban sculptures are produced through an urban planning system in the context of China; (2) explain what kind of influencing factors in relation to sustainability exist, mainly within the framework of planning strategies and cultural policies; and (3) put forward sustainable planning strategies to produce urban sculptures. To answer the above inquiries, we reviewed more than 100 articles, plans, and government documents, and we conducted several semi-structured interviews. The article argues that urban planning strategies and policies have been conceived as strategic instruments by the Chinese municipal governments to realize sustainable development of urban sculptures. Our findings would enrich knowledge on geographic studies of public art planning through the contextualized analysis of a Chinese urban sculpture planning system. It also fills the gap in the literature on the sustainability of urban sculptures by approaching the perspectives of planning strategies and cultural policies.

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  • Zhe Liu & Pieter Uyttenhove & Xin Zheng, 2018. "Moving Urban Sculptures towards Sustainability: The Urban Sculpture Planning System in China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(12), pages 1-24, December.
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