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The conservation and adaptive-reuse of historical industrial building is one of the most important issues to be solved in today’s urban development and construction in China. In this paper, the necessity and academic meaning of the conservation and adaptive-reuse of historical industrial building, were discussed by reviewing its development rend both at home and abroad, and the basic contents of the implementation of the conservation and adaptive-reuse of historical industrial building in China with specific cases provided were analyzed. It is the central task for China to put forward the restructuring and design methods, assessment principles and relevant core technical specifications based on the empirical researches on the historical industrial building and site.
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Translated from Architecture Journal, 2006, (8): 8–11 [译自: 建筑学报]
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Wang, J., Nan, J. Conservation and adaptive-reuse of historical industrial building in China in the post-industrial era. Front. Archit. Civ. Eng. China 1, 474–480 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11709-007-0064-5
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11709-007-0064-5