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China’s rapid economic growth and urban expansion in recent decades have caused industrial areas, traditionally situated along a city’s edge, to face deindustrialization. During subsequent urban renewal, industrial heritage protection often aims to preserve and reshape a place’s cultural memory. Yet real workers’ memories are seldom accounted for in China’s current social system—let alone the identities of worker communities, which are usually framed under a unified discourse in line with the national narrative of the socialist New China. This study takes the Hangzhou Steel Plant as a focal case to systematically explore workers’ memories (combining collective memory with personal interviews). It accordingly links memory and space. Practically, strategies are proposed to enhance the site and connect with the surrounding worker community through landscape design and public activities.
Shulan Fu (Thu,) studied this question.