Thoughts on the Evolution from Traditional Settlements to Modern Residential Areas

This paper expounds the evolution process from traditional settlement to modern residential area from the following three aspects, such as formation mechanism, public space and management mode, so as to find out the nutrition elements that modern residential are as can absorb from traditional settlements. This paper studies the phenomenon of continuation, variation and cut apart in modern residential areas to traditional settlements from private school, market place and aesthetic concept as well as analyzes the changes of traditional settlement to modern residential management modes. In this paper, it is considered that the traditional settlement relies on clan cohesion and Confucian ethics system as the legal aid means to manage the ethnic groups, but modern residential areas cannot imitate the way of management. The modern residential area can be effectively managed only by establishing owners' committees which are attended through all the owners and fairly elected. In this paper it is found that a fault zone appeared in the evolution of traditional settlement to modern residential area. At last, it proposes that residential area with memories, souls, beliefs and a sense of belonging is the one we love.