如果在相对比较广泛的意义上使用“城市更新”这个词的话,可能城市更新的历史也是相当悠久的。从某种意义上来讲,在人类文明发展的过程中,出现了城市文明这种特殊的文明形体之后,恐怕城市更新就和城市文明的发展如影随形,伴随着城市文明的推进。从这点上来讲,在中国悠久的文明史里面,城市文明的出现和发展相比于这个世界上很多的其他民族、其他国家来讲,也是相当早的。翻开历史书时就会发现,某种意义上朝代的更替,常常就伴随着一些大规模的城市更新的 If the term “city update” is used in a relatively broad sense, it may be that the history of urban renewal is quite old. In a certain sense, after the emergence of the special civilization of urban civilization in the process of the development of human civilization, I am afraid that urban renewal will go hand in hand with the development of urban civilization accompanied by the advance of urban civilization. From this point of view, in the long history of civilization in China, the appearance and development of urban civilization is quite early compared to many other nations in this world. When we open the history books, we find that the replacement of dynasties in a certain sense often accompanies some large-scale urban renewal