An Application of the “Urban Artifact†Theory in Chinese Cities, Analysis of Xiamen, China

Abstract

Nowadays, the quality of urban life in huge cities in China is an important issue. The modern cities have sorts of problems such as the loss of impression, the lack of daily life’s touch. But there has not been an effective construction way to change these kinds of feeling problems. This thesis attempts to turn Rossi’s urban thought into an effective value and analysis it by dividing it to two different city situations and applying it to two different kinds of “urban artifacts†to estimate a way focus on the city’s memory creation.