Competition Title: "The Appointment between Youth and City" Wuxi Urban Regeneration Design Competition
Background：
Wuxi is located in southeast Jiangsu province, the center of the Yangtze River Delta, which is the most developed economic area of China and it is 128 km away from Shanghai. Boasting a history of more than 3,000 years, Wuxi is a historical city with profound cultural heritages and a large amount of talents. It's home to the Wu Culture in ancient times, and the national industrial and commercial culture in modern times. Wuxi has 31 important heritage sites under state protection, 11 sites named national intangible cultural heritage and 60 museums and memorial halls.In recent years, Wuxi benchmark the layout planning of international youth friendly advanced cities, propose to build a youth development-oriented city. This Urban Regeneration Design Competition – "The Appointment between Youth and City", as an important support for the construction of a youth-oriented city in Wuxi, is committed to filling the gaps in public services by focusing on the perspective of young people, creating a comprehensive policy and social environment that meets the diverse and multi-level development needs of young people, promoting the gathering of young talents, and achieving mutual promotion and positive interaction between high-quality development of young people and the city.
Competition Theme:
The theme of this urban regeneration design competition is "The Appointment between Youth and City", aiming to focus on the positive interaction between urban regeneration and cultural inheritance in the "Old Town" of Greater Jiangnan from the perspective of youth. Taking the selected site of the competition as samples, combined with a series of measures that emphasize both restoration and protection, as well as upgrading and renovation, it aims to establish a model case of compatibility between "historical and cultural protection" and "urban regeneration", and create a series of new cultural and tourism landmarks for youth development-oriented cities.
