Newborn and Transformation: The Formation of Chinese Urban Planning Knowledge in Early Modern Times(1840–1911)

This paper focuses on urban planning knowledge and its formation in the early modern China, comparing the urban function framework defined in the Athens Charter with Chinese city development in the late Qing Dynasty, selecting "road," "park," and "commercial port" as keywords to analyze the construction practices and historical documents, in order to sort out the basic characteristics of the formation and development of urban planning knowledge. Based on the database of Airusheng Shenbao, this paper conducts keywords-frequency statistical analysis, and verifies the public acceptance of various planning knowledge in early modern times, expecting to reveal the origin and connotation of modern urban planning in China.