The 2022 Urban Regeneration Plan of Wuhan Hankou (China). Some notes towards an Urban Design based on Transitional Morphologies

Urban regeneration processes involving contemporary Chinese cities can today work adopting the paradigm of transitional urban morphologies: studying the forms of urban spaces and places in their dynamics and their evolution can support decision making and urban design practices. The aim of the paper is describing the plan for the urban regeneration of Hankou (the old concessions' area of Wuhan in Hubei Province), developed by the local authorities in 2022 with the main goal of making Hankou historical area a business card for post epidemic revitalization. If the fundamental problem of Hankou is the fragmentation and inefficient utilization of historic urban space along the Yangzi River, mapping and discovering the different phases of urban settlement development in time (from the old Chinese core to the European and Russian/Japanese concessions) can allow urban designers in texting an innovative approach to analyze the form of the city while deciding new assets, orders, configurations.