Exploring Urban Renewal Strategies in China from a Humanistic Perspective

Since 2020, the urbanisation rate of China's resident population has reached 63.89%. According to the general rule of urbanisation in the world, the growth rate of urbanisation is about to slow down relatively, and is facing the choice of the "Y" path of urbanisation (physical urbanisation/intellectual urbanisation) in the world. China's 14th Five-Year Plan proposes to "further promote a new urbanisation strategy with people at its core" and to shift to the connotative development of "asking for space within the city", elevating people-centred urban renewal to a whole new level from a national strategic level. At the same time, from the past ten years (2011-2020), the web search popularity and demand mapping of "urban renewal" shows that the Chinese public's concern for "urban renewal" continues to rise, especially for "old neighbourhood transformation" and "urban renewal". Old neighbourhood renovation", "shantytown renovation", "urban double repair", "urban design" and other core hotspots. From the actual cases in recent years, urban regeneration has gradually moved away from the "concrete jungle" of "big demolition and big construction" to focus on redeveloping and transforming old neighbourhoods, preserving local cultural characteristics, and focusing on attracting, gathering and retaining people, rather than on image. Therefore, it is important to pay attention to people in the process of urban regeneration. From the perspective of humanism, this paper first discusses the value orientation of urban renewal, for whom the city is renewed and what is the ultimate goal of urban renewal, "People who walk on the sidewalk make the city", humanism is a return to the perspective of people, responding to the demands of people Then, using systematic analysis, documentary analysis and comparative analysis of cases, the research method is used to sort out the relevant theories and case experiences of people-centredness and urban regeneration, to study the relationship between people-centredness and urban regeneration, and to propose strategic responses and reflections on urban regeneration in China based on this. Urban regeneration in China has been extensively researched by several scholars, mostly focusing on the renewal of the physical environment. This paper focuses on the study of human-centred strategies in urban regeneration, and proposes strategies to protect and promote human development, including ensuring fairness and justice in regeneration (establishing a public participation and coordination mechanism involving the government, community residents, resident organisations and businesses to ensure fairness and justice for people), meeting the needs of people's lives and sense of security (from macro policies to micro regeneration levels of in situ cultural preservation and "Human scale design), and human development (introducing and showcasing the intellectual services industry, injecting intellectual engines and stimulating the vitality of the regeneration area). Louis Mumford said that a city is a theatre of social activity. This paper hopes that the regenerated environment will not only be a new building, landscape and site, but also a spatial upgrade and a continuation of activities that meet the diverse needs of society and people, carry cultural memories and present a sense of life.