Urban Canal Spaces as Public Life Spaces: Inhabitants Attitudes of the Ancient Canal Spaces of YangzhouS I Q I M I A O

P O L I T E C O N I C O D I M I L A N O

BackgroundUNESCO Recommendation on the historic urban landscape (2011)

Community engagement tools

Knowledge and Planning tools

Regulatory systems

Financial tools

The Ancient Canal and YANGZHOU

The canal-oriented regeneration strategy concentrated on tourist economy, which aimed to have a “city brand” of the China G r a n d C a n a l . I t a c c e l e r a t e d t h e development of gentlemanizated process and weakened the identity of those places, namely, the tangible and intangible connections between the urban canal space and its residents.

Method and Data Collection 2 6 1 S A M P L E S ; 2 1 3 W E R E VA L I D I N S TAT I S T I C A L A N A LY S I S ; 1 0 9 O F 2 1 3 W I T H D E F I N I T E C O O R D I N AT E S

Scale 1： Knowledge about the China Grand Canal

Scale 2: Canal’s role of the city

Scale 3: Canal as the core of

public life

Preference of the canal sections

Temporal issues of visiting the canal

Traffic issues of visiting the canal

Social issues of visiting the canal