A Study on the Improvement and Renewal Strategy of Rural Living Environment in 

Mukden City During the Post-Pandemic Era

School of Architecture, Tianjin University, China

Abstract: Since 2020, with the globalization of the COVID-19 epidemic, collective housing in China, have formed a corresponding personalized and emergency planning and management model for the normalization of the epidemic, in order to cope with the adverse effects and changes of the epidemic prevention and control on the living environment. Mukden City in Shenyang, China, as an example, which has been basically shaped since the early Qing Dynasty, was dominated by residential area and the commercial area also influence the city planning profoundly meantime, and the living environment is old and incomplete. This paper starts with the research on the historical formation and the distribution and characteristics of various functional spaces in Mukden City. Combined with the post-epidemic era, the adjustment and update strategy of the residential area layout led by epidemic prevention measures, the concept of “Daily Living Cluster”, as well as specific strategies and methods for the improvement of the living environment in Mukden City and the renewal of urban areas, can effectively improve the quality of the living environment in Mukden City to a certain extent, and provide for the elderly in the post-epidemic era. The renewal of the old town offers new ideas  and new approaches.