An Investigation on the Preservation and Regeneration of Modern Park Heritage— A Case Study of Tianjin’s Central Park

This paper considers survived modern parks as a kind of living heritage. Taking Tianjin’s Central Park as a case, the paper reviews its development and changes, analyzes design intentions of various renovations, and interprets its historical, artistic, social and spiritual values. Moreover, the paper attempts to uncover diversified perceptions upon these multiple values by park-goers, via big data analyses of online comments, behavior annotations, questionnaires, interviews and other methods. The research explores the relationship between heritage perceptions and daily needs, and intends to provide some reference for preservation and regeneration of landscape heritage.