URBAN RENEWAL OF YUNJI ROAD, YICHANG

The urban renewal of Yunji Road takes city spirit and memory as the blueprint. By sorting the original urban space organization and contexts, redistributing road functions and boundaries, blanking space, creating park scenes, structuring smart transportation, reappearing historical memory, and motivating commercial vitality, the project has brought direct social benefits, such as improvement of traffic efficiency, smooth low-carbon, and slow-traffic system, an increase of public activity space and activation of commercial activities along the street. The indirect social benefits include an increase in employment and medium-and-long term tax revenue, maximumly meeting the increasing material and cultural demands. The project has stimulated the old space, and activated the cultural self-healing power of the city, therefore, making the core axis back to the daily life of citizens.