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Co-Benefits of Heritage Protection and Urban Planning

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 7653

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Prof. Dr. Jiaming Liu

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Key Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: human geography; tourism planning and management
Prof. Dr. Linsheng Zhong

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Key Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: ecotourism; protected areas; national parks
Dr. Chung-Shing Johnson Chan

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Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Interests: sustainable tourism; place branding; visitor experience; well-being
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Dr. Shuying Zhang

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Key Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: urban recreational space; heritage tourism and visitor perception

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Heritage is a precious non-renewable resource with rich historical, scientific, artistic, social, and cultural values. The acceleration of urbanization undoubtedly provides a rare opportunity for heritage protection and utilization. Responding to practical needs, relevant studies have been conducted. The combination of heritage protection and urban planning, not only improves the cultural appeal of the city but also solves the problem faced by heritage renewal. The mutually beneficial relationship between heritage protection and urban planning has established itself as one of the most vibrant fields of human geography study today.

The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) to give insights into the mutual promotion of heritage conservation and urban sustainable development. We widely invite the submission of articles that foster discussion on the natural and cultural heritage reuse and utilization in the context of urban geographical dimensions.  Conceptual or theoretical constructs, original quantitative and qualitative research, local, regional, and international case studies, and research focusing on heritage planning, products, and services, stakeholders, as well as exploring urban heritage systems can be addressed.

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

  • Digital technologies in urban heritage management;
  • Urban heritage reuse and planning;
  • Urban regeneration;
  • Smart cities and cultural sustainability;
  • Policies and governance of urban regeneration;
  • Case studies of urban heritage utilization.

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

Prof. Dr. Jiaming Liu
Prof. Dr. Linsheng Zhong
Dr. Chung Shing (Johnson) Chan
Dr. Shuying Zhang
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Keywords

  • urban heritage
  • urban regeneration
  • stakeholders
  • policy
  • protection of urban heritage
  • heritage tourism

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Semantic Comparison of Online Texts for Historical and Newly Constructed Replica Ancient Towns from a Tourist Perception Perspective: A Case Study of Tongguan Kiln Ancient Town and Jinggang Ancient Town
by Ruimin Guo, Yiwen He, Xin Zhang, Lai He, Qixuan Zhou and Guojing He
Land 2024, 13(12), 2197; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13122197 - 16 Dec 2024
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This study explores the dimensions of visitor perception by conducting a semantic analysis, Grounded Theory coding classification, and sentiment analysis on online texts related to Jinggang Ancient Town and Tongguanyao Ancient Town. It reveals the differences between newly constructed and historical ancient towns [...] Read more.
This study explores the dimensions of visitor perception by conducting a semantic analysis, Grounded Theory coding classification, and sentiment analysis on online texts related to Jinggang Ancient Town and Tongguanyao Ancient Town. It reveals the differences between newly constructed and historical ancient towns in terms of tourism experience perception, landscape spatial design, and the activation of cultural heritage preservation. The results indicated the following: (1) The differences in tourists’ perceptions stem from the different needs for the characteristics of the ancient towns. Tourists focus on the design innovation and experiential interest of Tongguanyao Ancient Town, while preferring the cultural depth and authenticity of Jinggang Ancient Town. (2) Tourists are highly concerned about the characteristics of “tourism development”, highlighting the challenge of balancing tourism development with the protection of ancient town heritage resources. (3) The study further emphasizes innovative forms of the reproduction of cultural heritage through multi-sensory, modern, and diverse approaches. This study enhances landscape design in ancient towns by integrating perspectives from both tourists and designers, promoting the protection of cultural heritage and facilitating deeper cultural tourism integration. Full article
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Evaluating Scientific Tourism of Geoheritage: An Empirical Study of Fangshan Global Geopark in Beijing
by Zehui Zhu, Jiaming Liu, He Zhu and Wudong Zhao
Land 2024, 13(12), 2119; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13122119 - 6 Dec 2024
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Scientific tourism (ScT) of geoheritage serves as a crucial approach to ensuring the protection of natural heritage. Establishing a comprehensive evaluation system to guide the exploration of ScT in geoheritage is essential. This study adheres to principles of comprehensiveness by integrating both qualitative [...] Read more.
Scientific tourism (ScT) of geoheritage serves as a crucial approach to ensuring the protection of natural heritage. Establishing a comprehensive evaluation system to guide the exploration of ScT in geoheritage is essential. This study adheres to principles of comprehensiveness by integrating both qualitative and quantitative methods, ensuring operability, authenticity, and scientific rigor. It employs the analytic hierarchy process, expert consultation method, and fuzzy mathematical evaluation method to construct an evaluation index system. This system encompasses four dimensions: ScT of geoheritage resources, practices and construction related to ScT, auxiliary conditions for exploration, and ecological environment construction. The study uses Fangshan Global Geopark in Beijing as a case study for empirical analysis. The findings indicate that the constructed evaluation system effectively captures key factors influencing the exploration of the ScT of geoheritage. Fangshan Global Geopark demonstrates commendable performance in terms of its ScT of geoheritage resources as well as practices and construction. But it has limitations regarding auxiliary conditions for exploration and ecological environment construction. This study provides theoretical underpinnings and policy recommendations for the exploration of the ScT of geoheritage. Full article
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Using Public Participation Geographic Information System to Study Social Cohesion and Its Relationship with Activities and Specific Landscape Characteristics in Shanghai’s Modern Historic Parks
by Yuxian Chen, Jiajia Tang and Daixin Dai
Land 2024, 13(12), 1996; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13121996 - 23 Nov 2024
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Evaluating the perceptions of social cohesion provides an elaborated understanding of the commemorative values of modern heritage. However, little attention has been paid to China’s modern historic parks (MHPs) due to the difficulty of capturing spatially explicit information. Utilizing a public participation GIS, [...] Read more.
Evaluating the perceptions of social cohesion provides an elaborated understanding of the commemorative values of modern heritage. However, little attention has been paid to China’s modern historic parks (MHPs) due to the difficulty of capturing spatially explicit information. Utilizing a public participation GIS, we quantified four types of social cohesion in Shanghai’s existing MHPs, and analyzed their relationships with different types of activities and specific landscape features. The results show that the MHPs are rich in social cohesion, especially in belonging and place attachment. Social cohesion is spatially associated with leisure and sightseeing activities. The perception of different types of social cohesion varies across spaces with different landscape features. Our findings validate the composition of commemorative values of MHPs, and offer a reference for balancing the preservation and regeneration of modern heritage. Full article
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When Local Governments Plan to Give Their Past a Future: A State-Wide Analysis of Heritage Strategy Documents in New South Wales (Australia)
by Dirk H. R. Spennemann
Land 2024, 13(11), 1955; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13111955 - 19 Nov 2024
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The authorized heritage discourse sensu Smith asserts that cultural heritage, and in particular heritage places, can be managed for the benefit of present and future generations through appropriate measures of identification, protection and conservation. Comprehensive planning at the individual place as well as [...] Read more.
The authorized heritage discourse sensu Smith asserts that cultural heritage, and in particular heritage places, can be managed for the benefit of present and future generations through appropriate measures of identification, protection and conservation. Comprehensive planning at the individual place as well as community/local government level is the backbone to good management if ad hoc decisions are to be avoided. While all local government authorities (councils) in New South Wales (Australia) are mandated to produce Local Strategic Planning Statements with a ten-year horizon that may include statements related to heritage management, some councils also promulgated dedicated heritage strategies. So far, the nature and comprehensiveness of such planning instruments have never been formally investigated. This paper provides a state-wide analysis of Local Strategic Planning Statements and council heritage strategies in NSW. The review shows that the priorities expressed in heritage strategies are often mundane, with none of the strategies expressing aspirational priorities or actions. The value of heritage to a community is assumed axiomatically, with very few heritage strategies expressing a vision for why heritage management is of community relevance. Only a few heritage strategies demonstrate how they, and their strategic priorities, are interlinked with other local, let alone state-level, strategies and policies. Very few of the documents provide evidence for the basis on which the strategies are founded, such as canvassing public opinion, situational analysis or projections of demographic, social, societal and economic trajectories based on strategic foresight. This review highlights much room for improvement. In a post-modernist age of alternative truths, where trust in governments is declining, it is imperative that local government heritage strategies be grounded in the community, offer transparency in how priorities are decided and, above all, provide a clear and aspirational vision for the role that cultural heritage shall play in the community. Full article
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The Cognitive Mechanisms of Residents under the Background of the Renewal of Suburban Historical and Cultural Villages
by Meng Li, Tiehong Wu, Linsheng Zhong, Chengcai Tang, Jingwen Wang and Ruhan Yi
Land 2024, 13(9), 1465; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13091465 - 10 Sep 2024
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This study aims to investigate the cognitive mechanisms of rural residents amidst the renewal of suburban historical and cultural villages by examining the interplay between nostalgia, collective memory, subjective well-being, and place identity in rural tourism destinations. Using Naobao Village as a case [...] Read more.
This study aims to investigate the cognitive mechanisms of rural residents amidst the renewal of suburban historical and cultural villages by examining the interplay between nostalgia, collective memory, subjective well-being, and place identity in rural tourism destinations. Using Naobao Village as a case study—a suburban historical and cultural village in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia—this research employs a comprehensive approach integrating experimental methods and questionnaire surveys. The findings demonstrate that analyzing the interaction among the four emotions can elucidate the cognitive mechanism of residents. Moreover, it uncovers that positive tourism effects significantly influence residents’ perception of their living environment with positive effects on collective memory, subjective well-being, and place identity. In the theoretical model for generating cognition among residents in suburban historical and cultural villages, subjective well-being and collective memory play crucial mediating roles. This study offers a novel perspective for spatial reconstruction and cultural evolution of tourist landscapes in suburban rural tourist destinations. Full article
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Towards the Wall or the Bridge? A Case Study of Host–Guest Symbiosis in a Chinese Heritage Tourism Site
by Hui Tao, Xiaoying Chen, Yehong Sun and Zhe Wang
Land 2024, 13(8), 1315; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13081315 - 19 Aug 2024
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The close connection between community residents and tourists in heritage tourism sites strengthens the relationship between people and places. To explore the mechanisms of host–guest interaction and the driving factors of residents’ willingness to participate in tourism in heritage tourism destinations, this study [...] Read more.
The close connection between community residents and tourists in heritage tourism sites strengthens the relationship between people and places. To explore the mechanisms of host–guest interaction and the driving factors of residents’ willingness to participate in tourism in heritage tourism destinations, this study adopts a mixed-method approach combining qualitative research and quantitative analysis. The results of the study show that host–guest symbiosis in heritage tourism destinations goes through four stages: identity qualification, bodily co-presence, common focus, and emotional solidarity. Quantitative research (SEM) reveals the impact of residents’ welcoming nature, emotional closeness, and sympathetic understanding towards tourists on the sense of community belonging, as well as the subsequent response of willingness to participate in tourism. Through the analysis of the host–guest interaction mechanisms and symbiotic relationships in heritage tourism sites, the key emotional factors influencing residents’ participation in tourism are revealed. Full article
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Canal Heritage Tourism Utilization Models: Experience and Inspirations from the Grand Canal (Beijing Section)
by Shuying Zhang and Wenting Yu
Land 2024, 13(6), 860; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13060860 - 15 Jun 2024
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Tourism utilization is an important means for revitalizing canal heritage. Exploring the utilization models of canal heritage tourism is the prerequisite to realizing the sustainable development of canals. Based on previous studies, this study defines two important models of community concentration and corridor [...] Read more.
Tourism utilization is an important means for revitalizing canal heritage. Exploring the utilization models of canal heritage tourism is the prerequisite to realizing the sustainable development of canals. Based on previous studies, this study defines two important models of community concentration and corridor expansion. Through an empirical comparison of the Old City section and the Tongzhou section along the Grand Canal in Beijing, this study systematically explores the theoretical mechanism and law of the differences between the two models of tourism utilization. Utilizing a collection of the literature, field investigations, and in-depth interview data and using the theory of a figure-ground relationship, this study discusses the characteristics of the two models of canal heritage tourism utilization and the reasons for their differences. The results reveal that community-concentrated and corridor-expanded models show great differences in the development process, heritage and tourism resources, and spatial organization. The formation of the differences results from location, economic, cultural, ecological, and accidental factors as the driving forces and the continuous self-adjustment of the areas along the canal. This study provides theoretical constructs and policy recommendations for optimization and sustainable canal heritage development. Full article
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The Practice Characteristics of Authorized Heritage Discourse in Tourism: Thematic and Spatial
by Yang Jin, Bing Hou and Xiang Kong
Land 2024, 13(6), 816; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13060816 - 7 Jun 2024
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Under the influence of tourism and globalization, heritage production presents a new landscape. As a crucial framework for interpreting heritage, Authorized Heritage Discourse (AHD) has profound significance in discussing its practice characteristics in this context. Taking cities along the Jiangsu–Zhejiang section of the [...] Read more.
Under the influence of tourism and globalization, heritage production presents a new landscape. As a crucial framework for interpreting heritage, Authorized Heritage Discourse (AHD) has profound significance in discussing its practice characteristics in this context. Taking cities along the Jiangsu–Zhejiang section of the Grand Canal as a case study and drawing upon policy text, this study explores the practice characteristics of AHD in the tourism context. Results indicate that the thematic practices of AHD encompass protection and management, ecological construction, cultural production and inheritance, touristification, infrastructure and services, and marketing and cooperation, forming a clustering pattern with touristification as the central theme. The spatial characteristics manifest as multi-scale practices ranging from global to regional to local, each corresponding to diverse thematic characteristics. This study deepens the understanding of AHD in tourism and advances the research progress of heritage tourism. It also provides practical references for the utilization of urban heritage and the management of heritage tourism. Full article
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