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Landscape Planning for Mass Tourism in Historical Cities
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Landscape Planning for Mass Tourism in Historical Cities

A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Planning and Landscape Architecture".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 August 2024 | Viewed by 2130

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Cristina Lupu

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Department of Geography, West University of Timisoara, 300223 Timișoara, Romania
Interests: digital tourism; cultural tourism; qualitative methods; geography of tourism; cultural geography
Dr. Ana-Neli Ianăş

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Department of Geography, Faculty of Chemistry, Biology and Geography, West University of Timişoara, Blv. V. Pârvan, 4, 300223 Timiş County, Romania
Interests: landscape analysis; regional geography; land cover/land use
Prof. Dr. Marco Marchetti

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Department of Biosciences and Territory, University of Molise, Via Francesco De Sanctis, 1, 86100 Campobasso, Italy
Interests: urban forest; landscape ecology; landscape planning; land management; forest management; environmental science
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Mass tourism is linked with the history of the tourism industry, and there are many tourist cities that decide to convert their historic center area into a tourist one. Additionally, mass tourism has negative impacts on destinations such as tourism gentrification and environmental, economic and socio-cultural impacts on society. According to the World Tourism Organization, meeting the needs of present tourists and hosts represent one of the pillars of determining the sustainability of future tourism development.

This Special Issue emphasizes the importance of landscape planning for mass tourism in historical cities and outlines the urban policies involved in the landscape planning. Hence, this issue wants to add new theoretical and practical implications which relate to the subject and the possible solutions that might appear regarding urban planning in some historical cities worldwide. The authors are encouraged to submit research papers that have tangential interest on the two concepts of landscape planning and historical tourism, revealing new insights in order to help the authorities to build new tourism plans or strategies for organizing the space. The results could have different implications for stakeholders in tourism and landscape planning and they might add new perspectives relating to the gentrification phenomenon in tourism.

The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) to give insights about landscape planning and mass tourism in historical cities.

This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes:

  • Historical tourism;
  • Cultural tourism;
  • Landscape planning.

We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.

Dr. Cristina Lupu
Dr. Ana-Neli Ianăş
Prof. Dr. Marco Marchetti
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Land is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • urban planning
  • mass tourism
  • historical center
  • public policies
  • landscape planning
  • tourist strategies

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Comparative Study of Cultural Landscape Perception in Historic Districts from the Perspectives of Tourists and Residents
by Siyu Jiang and Jiang Liu
Land 2024, 13(3), 353; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13030353 - 09 Mar 2024
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From a human-centric perspective, improving the spatial quality of historical districts is a key focus in achieving their refined governance. Based on a public survey performed in Zhangzhou Ancient City, we explored the differences in the perception of cultural landscape genes (CLGs) between [...] Read more.
From a human-centric perspective, improving the spatial quality of historical districts is a key focus in achieving their refined governance. Based on a public survey performed in Zhangzhou Ancient City, we explored the differences in the perception of cultural landscape genes (CLGs) between residents and tourists with different individual characteristics, utilizing non-parametric tests and box-plot analysis methods. The findings indicate the following: Tourists have a stronger perception of CLGs related to site layout and architectural features than residents, while residents have a stronger perception of cultural customs. Gender-related differences in the perception of CLG are only significant among tourists, with females showing a higher level of CLG perception than males. Residents of different age groups show a “U-shaped” distribution in their perception of CLGs related to site layout, whereas senior tourists have a lower cognitive perception level. People with lower educational backgrounds among residents tend to perceive cultural customs more significantly, whereas tourists with diverse educational backgrounds do not perceive them as having a significant impact. Residence location, visit frequency, duration of residence, and residence nature are key positive factors affecting the perception of CLGs. Our study highlights the significance of considering the users’ characteristics in enhancing the refined governance of historical districts. Full article
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‘Thousand Years of Charm’: Exploring the Aesthetic Characteristics of the Mount Tai Landscape from the Cross-Textual Perspective
by Ying Yu, Bing Liu, Lin Ma, Xin Han and Taeyeol Jung
Land 2023, 12(12), 2129; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12122129 - 01 Dec 2023
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With accelerating urbanization, Mount Tai is increasingly at risk of homogenization with other scenic spots, losing its landscape aesthetic characteristics as ‘the Most Revered of the Five Sacred Mountains’, which poses a growing threat to the long-term sustainable development of Mount Tai. Accordingly, [...] Read more.
With accelerating urbanization, Mount Tai is increasingly at risk of homogenization with other scenic spots, losing its landscape aesthetic characteristics as ‘the Most Revered of the Five Sacred Mountains’, which poses a growing threat to the long-term sustainable development of Mount Tai. Accordingly, this study takes texts written by different social groups as the research material and analyses the aesthetic themes and spatial distribution of the elements in the texts to determine the aesthetic characteristics of the Mount Tai landscape from multiple perspectives and long time series. This study complements the research on the Mount Tai landscape, which focuses on specific research material and time. The results of the study can help to raise awareness of the complexity and multiple values of Mount Tai landscapes and have implications for research and practice of other heritage landscapes. Full article
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