Notice of RetractionThe dilemma analysis on the public participation in the architectural heritage protection

Notice of Retraction

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In the past 30 years, the Chinese rapid economic development and the large-scale urban construction have caused a great deal of "constructive" and "protection" damages to the architectural heritages. At the same time, it also has raised public protection awareness. Currently, public participation has been considered an effective way to protect architectural heritage and there are many theories about it. However, the public protection still stays at a low level and the participation cost is too high. So, this paper takes the event that the Team of Tianjin Volunteers protected the 5 Avenues successfully as an example and makes an analysis on the dilemma so as to promote the public participation process during the architectural heritage protection.