Community Renewal with Urban Diagnosis: Bajiao Community, Shijingshan District, Beijing

Abstract

Nowadays, China's economic development has entered a new normal, and the mainline of urban construction is increasingly shifting from "incremental development of the new area" to "urban renewal of city center area". As a result, the urban renewal market is expanding rapidly and is becoming a new growth point for urban development. At the same time, with the implementation of urban renewal for the first time in the 14th Five-Year Plan, major cities across the country have released their urban renewal policies one after another, with a unified emphasis on preventing large-scale demolition and construction, while local policies have different emphases: Beijing and Chengdu place more emphasis on organic urban renewal, Chongqing encourages more market-oriented operations, and cities in Guangdong focus on further improving the existing policy system, while "determine the main body of coordination", "create a vibrant space", "retain the fire and smoke", "establish a whole life cycle management system" and "establish a whole life cycle management system" are the keywords in Shanghai's latest legislative document. In general, it seems that China's urban renewal is presenting a new situation of multi-dimensional values, multiple models, multi-disciplinary exploration and multi-dimensional governance, and its spatial trend is transforming from "point-level building renewal" to "piecewise overall renewal". As the basic unit of the urban organism, community is the core point to promote the urban renewal. This paper will start from the meaning and demand of urban renewal, reveal the current dilemma and development trend of community renewal, and take the renewal planning of Bajiao community in Shijingshan District, Beijing as an example to discuss how to introduce a new way of thinking — urban diagnosis, to gain a deeper understanding of the community's operation and development patterns, to accurately diagnose the community's internal problems, to help grasp the key elememts of renewal, and then to formulate scientific and reasonable planning and renewal strategies and management policies.