Succession and Development of the Traditional Commercial Centers

Abstract:

In history, traditional commercial centers played an important role not only in the growth, the development and the flourish of a city, but in the succession of historical culture and the local custom. In the modern society, the traditional commercial centers still affect a citys economy and culture in various aspects. At present, because of weakness of the related theories, people have various opinions about the traditional commercial centers. Therefore, how to understand correctly the connotation of the traditional commercial centers and how to study the programming of the traditional commercial centers at a higher level, is the main topic of this article. The article starts with the analyses of the concept of the traditional commercial centers. Based on surveys on-the-spot and the documentary data, it compares the similarities and differences between the practice and the theory in China, analyzes the success and failure, thus establishes the systematic programming mechanism of the traditional commercial centers. Under the guidance of the systematic programming mechanism, this article tries to establish the mechanism of the historical evolution, the development motivation, the goal-establishment, and the control in construction, so as to leads to its orderly development.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 712-715)
• Pages: 877-882
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.712-715.877
• Online since: June 2013
• Authors: Jun Yan Yang, Bei Xiang Shi, Tao Zhang
• Keywords: Development, Succession, Traditional Commercial Center

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