[11[] Xi’an local chronicles office compile committee, 2001, Year Book of Xi’an (Xi’an Nianjian), Xi’an Press]
The second one is how to shape up for appearances city feature after revitalize the dilapidated housing as a historical ancient city, we have already lost the vastly featured courtyard housing in the ODHR program once in Xi’an, now is time to facing another challenge to rehabilitated again the inner city, to preserve it’s features as the townscape. Since the land use rights have been transferred to private,[22[] In accordance with the Interim Regulations Concerning the Leasing and Transfer of the Right to the Use of the State-Owned Land in the Urban Areas, the maximum term for the leased right to use the land is determined respectively in the light of the purposes: 70 years for residential purposes; 50 years for industrial purposes; 50 years for the purposes of education, science, culture, public health and physical education; 40 years for commercial, tourist and recreational purposes; and 50 years for mixed utilization or other purposes.] in order to improve the physical environment, inhabitants start to revalorize facilitate by their own. It is now interesting to note that some self-built practice in quietly undertaking in some potential area from the dilapidated house. The original plan is not considered the possibility, yet the local inhabitants start the regeneration base on the physical precondition. This urban transformation, officially, is actually a violation on the comprehensive master plan in a sense, yet it brings the feature to the site. (Fig.12)