[11[] Xi’an local
chronicles office compile committee, 2001, Year Book of Xi’an
(Xi’an Nianjian), Xi’an Press]
The second one is how to shape up for appearances city feature after
revitalize the dilapidated housing as a historical ancient city, we have
already lost the vastly featured courtyard housing in the ODHR program
once in Xi’an, now is time to facing another challenge to rehabilitated
again the inner city, to preserve it’s features as the townscape. Since
the land use rights have been transferred to
private,[22[] In
accordance with the Interim Regulations Concerning the Leasing and
Transfer of the Right to the Use of the State-Owned Land in the Urban
Areas, the maximum term for the leased right to use the land is
determined respectively in the light of the purposes: 70 years for
residential purposes; 50 years for industrial purposes; 50 years for
the purposes of education, science, culture, public health and
physical education; 40 years for commercial, tourist and recreational
purposes; and 50 years for mixed utilization or other purposes.]
in order to improve the physical environment, inhabitants start to
revalorize facilitate by their own. It is now interesting to note that
some self-built practice in quietly undertaking in some potential area
from the dilapidated house. The original plan is not considered the
possibility, yet the local inhabitants start the regeneration base on
the physical precondition. This urban transformation, officially, is
actually a violation on the comprehensive master plan in a sense, yet it
brings the feature to the site. (Fig.12)