Cultural Corridor Research Articles

Reconstructing historical road landscapes along the corridors of early 20th-century road networks in Northern Greece

The paper aims to reconstruct historical road networks, focusing on an area of South-Eastern Europe (specifically on a part of northern Greece) and to contribute to the research for cultural heritage landscapes promotion. By the proposed approach, ignored cultural corridors would be revealed, paving the way for significant management and the emergence of cultural landscapes. Geographical Information Systems (GIS) tools, textual references and historical maps are utilised to identify the historical roadways. The spatial information is mined from the historical maps, whilst the descriptive information is mined from both the textual sources and the maps as well. The combination of the maps and the narratives supported an integrated classification of the roads for all periods, according to the construction style/technique, allowing the interpretations of the historical roads’ landscapes. The suggested approach and the consequent maps could serve as a valuable contribution to the enhancement of heritage management of historical landscapes.

Poker's Paradox: The Interplay of Skill, Chance, and Game Theory

The intricate dance between skill and chance in poker has been a topic of enduring debate, resonating not just among game enthusiasts but also in legal, economic, and cultural corridors. Drawing from historical underpinnings and foundational principles of game theorypioneered by the likes of Emile Borel and notably advanced by John Von Neumannthis paper delves into the intricate interplay of skill and chance in poker. By introducing a comprehensive model that employs game theory principles, we navigate poker's multidimensional landscape, demonstrating that these elements are inextricably intertwined. Our analysis reveals that while the draw of cards introduces an inherent element of chance, a player's prowess in decision-making, strategizing, bluffing, and opponent interpretation is paramount to long-term success. This dual nature of poker where both skill and chance operate in tandem is what makes it a subject of such profound interest and complexity. By presenting poker in this nuanced light, our study seeks to break down traditional dichotomies and offers a more holistic understanding.

Makna Tarian Jubata Suku Dayak Kanayatn dalam Perspektif Aspek dan Nilai Transendental

The focus of writing this scientific work is examining the meaning of the Jubata Dance of the Dayak Kanayatn Tribe in the Transcendental Aspect Perspective as its scalpel. The purpose of writing a scientific paper is first of all to examine more deeply the meaning of spirituality contained in the Jubata Dance of the Kanayatn Dayak Tribe. The Jubata Dance is a Dayak Kanayatn tradition to express human life on earth. Before the development of technology and communication, the Dayak Kanayatn people showed their lives through dances that contained the meaning of life. In this article the writer uses descriptive method. Apart from book sources, the author interviewed several sources or local people who pay attention to culture (traditional leaders), especially traditional leaders. What has been obtained in this scientific work is finding the values of human life in culture, especially in the cultural arts of the Jubata Dance. The Jubata Dance is believed by the Dayak people as a traditional healing ceremony for diseases, before prescriptions were made by doctors. In addition, the author wants to invite readers, especially young people, to get to know identity through cultural corridors.

Remnant peat deposit provides clues to the inundated cultural landscapes of Kepa Kurl, southwestern Australia

In early 2021 several tree stumps embedded in a remnant peat deposit were found in the intertidal zone of Wharton Beach, southwestern Australia by Esperance Tjaltjraak Rangers. Attempts were made to identify the tree using both dendrochronological and anthracological methods but were limited by the lack of reference information from tree species in the southwestern Australia. Radiocarbon dates from one stump indicates the tree lived for approximately 200 years, growing into the peaty sediments sometime before ca. 7340 cal yrs BP and died directly or indirectly as a result of marine transgression. The peat deposit is dated to 7608–7429 cal yrs BP but its exposed seaward edge was unconformably underlain by younger sand, dated by OSL to around 3550 years, which may have intruded as a result of a storm event. An OSL age of 12,600 years was obtained from the base of a laminated dune sequence behind the exposed peat deposit, and is significant given a similar age for a previously documented infant burial site in the area. Together these records provide a rare insight into the former wetland landscape and a cultural and scientific link to the drowned coastal plain. A need for more integrative research along this cultural corridor is clear but this preliminary study has demonstrated the value of combining Cultural Knowledge Systems and Western Science, for Tjaltjraak Healthy Country Program and analogous Aboriginal ‘caring for country’ programmes throughout Australia.

I’m Free Because I’m a Fugitive—I’m a Fugitive Because I’m Not Free

I’m Free Because I’m a Fugitive—I’m a Fugitive Because I’m Not Free

Mobility regulations and urban projects in Mexico City: An accessibility focus on territorial inequalities

Global Cities frequently concentrate their public budgets and private investments in their central, wealthy zones. This article outlines the inequitable distribution of the public budgets, private investments and mixed-use zoning among the municipalities of Mexico City with regard to the provision of accessibility. Global Cities’ perspectives lack acknowledgement of elements of mobilities theory. This paper will discuss how mobility regulations and urban projects involve public space interventions and the shaping of citizens’ (mobile) daily life activities and conditions. The phenomenon is illustrated through two cases: 1) The city’s latest mobility regulations (2014 and 2015) related to its inhabitants’ daily long-distance commuting and air pollution mitigation, and 2) the urban project called Cultural Corridor ‘Chapultepec/Zona Rosa’ (CCC) related to citizens’ urban planning interventions, which was cancelled in 2015. In order to achieve equality between territories, governments should consider citizens’ participation within urban projects and mobility regulations. Governments should also take account of interrelations between urban planning and mobility perspectives.

Spatial Evolution and Driving Mechanism of City Networks in the Middle and Lower Ganges Valley from the 16th to the Mid-18th Century

The middle and lower Ganges Valley constitute an important part of the Asian economic and cultural corridor. Multicultural exchanges have had a profound impact on the development of historic cities and towns in the region. Considering the towns and cities of the middle and lower Ganges Valley from the 16th to the mid-18th century, this paper integrates the network theory and the centrifugal and centripetal force theory to explain how factors and forces have driven the spatial evolution of the regional urban system. By extracting spatiotemporal data from multiple sources, using the historical map translation method and spatial calculations based on GIS (Geographical Information System), the spatial pattern evolution of the city networks in this historical period is analyzed. The results show that centripetal and centrifugal forces that are generated by different driving factors combined to produce city networks in the middle and lower Ganges Valley from the 16th to the mid-18th century, forming a polycentric “axis network” spatial pattern with a stable and unified overall structure and dynamic and diverse local structures. The paper also argues that constant cultural and socioeconomic communication between the middle and lower Ganges Valley and the East is the key reason for the continuous expansion of the network.

Seeking Horses: Allies, Clients and Exchanges in the Zhou Period (1045\u2013221 BC)

Horses and chariots—and the associated technology and expertise—derived from the steppe contributed to the success of the Zhou conquest of the Shang in c. 1045 BC and remained important throughout Zhou rule in ancient China. On the basis of material cultural patterns, including the style and material used in bridle cheek-pieces found in tombs of the late second and early first millennium BC, this paper points to a northern origin for Zhou horses. Important intermediaries, providing these horses, were the clans whose cemeteries have been identified on the northern edges of the Central Plains. The necessity for repeated exchanges bringing south horses from the north was a consequence of key environmental differences between the steppe and the Central Plains, including climate, geomorphology, essential soil nutrients, and land use. These created significant difficulties in sustainably breeding and pasturing horses of quality. As a result, the people of the Central Plains were bound, over millennia, to seek horses from the northwest, along a cultural corridor that also moved northern materials and technologies, such as gold-, iron- and some bronze-working, into the Central Plains from the steppes.

Historique des études sur le paléolithique de l’Archipel du Japon

Paleolithic studies on the Japanese Archipelago started from the excavation of the Iwajuku Site in 1949. In 2000, research efforts were damaged by a forgery incident, which was concerned with the Lower/Middle Paleolithic period. After completing the investigation on the incident, the presence of the Lower/Middle Paleolithic remains unsolved. However, we have entered a new stage of research on the Upper Paleolithic for which over ten thousand sites were discovered. The new research framework places, at the heart, tephra-based lithic chronology, site structure analysis that investigates a site's formation process through conjoined pieces and parent rock analysis, and obsidian archaeology in which diachronic research is conducted on obsidian source exploitation and circulation range. Now unique characteristics of Japanese Paleolithic culture are coming to light, beginning with the migration from the neighboring continent, connecting East Asia through the Paleolithic Cultural Corridor around the Sea of Japan and the Obsidian Road, and nurturing the unique traditions of lithic production.

The conceptual model of spatial structure of tourism in cultural corridors in the core of Yogyakarta

The systemic harmony of the attraction in the cultural corridor area consisting of one or more fragments would work together forming a collective attraction. A destination in a corridor can be a visual linkage and datum linkage, both of which are parts of the cultural corridor. One approach to linkage theory is visual linkage and datum spatial linkage. The main aim of this study is to observe the existence of tourism object variation in regionalization and connectivity related to visual linkage and spatial datum. Visual linkage and spatial datum serve functional relation when measuring and analysing the spatial structure of tourism. The method used and developed in the study is of qualitative description with a conceptual model of the spatial structure of tourism using the connection of cultural tourism in the core of Yogyakarta city. There are two types of data used in this study, namely: a) primary data that is obtained through, field observation that includes observations of similar areas (precedent studies) and site locations to be used. b) Documentation, recording events using tools such as a camera that is used to capture images or videos, notebooks, and writing tools for taking notes or sketching and a smartphone. The result showed that the cultural corridor in the Malioboro area is a visual linkage of two or more fragments that are connected into a single unit visually able to unite the area at various scales. This results in connecting the area neutrally. The Malioboro area is a visual linkage, which is an area that is functionally united by connecting several areas and prioritizing one of them. The Malioboro area has several visual linkage elements such as line, corridor, side/edge, axis, and rhythm.

Regenerating the Historic Urban Landscape through Circular Bottom-Up Actions: The Urban Seeding Process in Rijeka

The increasing pressure on urban resilience and the parallel interest in the preservation of the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) have opened new frontiers of research that find, in the principles of the circular economy, good responses. Cities need to remake themselves from pure consumption to more resilient and circular centers, finding inspiration in their cultural and natural heritage and the history that generated it. The City of Rijeka, Croatia, one of the partners in the CLIC project (an EU-funded Horizon 2020 research project entitled “Circular models Leveraging Investments in Cultural heritage adaptive reuse”), represents an exceptional example of how to manage the change from an industrial port city to a more sustainable and citizen-oriented living space, looking at the potentials of the cultural and historical layers as opportunities for the population. The City of Rijeka, aware of such potentials, applied successfully as a European Capital of Culture 2020 (ECoC 2020), while unlikely facing the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Rijeka, thanks to the CLIC Heritage Innovative Partnership (HIP) program, the efforts to associate the circular economy and historic urban landscape benefit from an exceptional local awareness of the urban cultural and natural heritage, permitting the elaboration of the cultural corridor concept. By using the historical river of the city, the Rječina, as a connecting line of several heritage assets leading toward the Sea waterfront, the cultural corridor represents a space of culture creation based on continuity and proximity, where all citizens can securely reappropriate dismissed parts of the city, similar to the commons’ management practice. The cultural corridor has been imagined as a spatial implementation model that needs actions to be actuated. A set of actions was designed through the urban seeding process, tested in a workshop methodology, meant to address the HUL regeneration through an awareness-raising and cocreation approach by codesigning through situated learning, possible permanent or temporary actions, activities, assets to be replicated in the corridor and, per extension, in the entire city. This article will explain the way the cultural corridor concept and urban seeding were generated in the City of Rijeka, giving evidence of the motivations and the proposals made in parallel with the existing initiatives of the city and its cultural movements.

Delineating an Integrated Ecological and Cultural Corridor Network: A Case Study in Beijing, China

This study shows that an integrated ecological and cultural corridor network can help guide city development strategies to better preserve ecological and cultural assets. Traditionally, protection zones and suitable development areas are often identified by separately considering natural elements of the ecosystem and elements of cultural significance. To achieve the purpose of cohesively protecting areas of ecological and/or cultural significance, we have developed a corridor-based spatial framework by integrating ecological and cultural assets. Ecological sources are identified by combining protection prioritization, nature reserves, and water bodies. Ecological corridors are delineated by using the minimum cumulative resistance (MCR) model on a resistance surface constructed from land-use data to connect ecological sources. Ecologically important areas are then delineated by creating a 5-km buffer zone from ecological sources and ecological corridors. Cultural corridors are historical routes and rivers surrounded by abundant cultural nodes. Like ecologically important areas, culturally important areas are delineated by creating a 5-km buffer zone from cultural corridors. Comprehensive regions are the overlap of ecologically and culturally important areas. Finally, the integrated network connects all comprehensive regions following ecological corridors and cultural corridors in such a way that the largest number of ecological sources and cultural nodes are reached. We applied this framework in Beijing, China, and the results show that there are 2011 km2 of ecological sources, 30 ecological corridors, 423 cultural nodes, seven cultural corridors, and 10 comprehensive regions covering 2916 km2 in the integrated network. The framework adds new insights to the methodology of considering ecological and cultural assets together in developing protection and development strategies.

Identifying cultural heritage corridors for preservation through multidimensional network connectivity analysis — a case study of the ancient Tea-Horse Road in Simao, China

ABSTRACT Due to the development and evolution of transportation networks, and the destruction and disappearance of cultural heritage in the urbanisation process, it is imperative to protect historical and cultural heritage using various public policy tools. Identifying heritage sites is a critical first step in achieving subsequent successful preservation. However, few extant studies have explored methods to identify heritage corridors using network analysis approaches. This study uses multidimensional network connectivity analysis to identify cultural heritage corridors along the ancient Tea-Horse Road. Based on the theory of occurrence, this paper considers the hierarchical factors such as time, space, ethnic culture, religious culture, and altitude differences in landscape patches to explore how these corridors are connected through a multidimensional network. The study fills a void in current literature and presents a spatially integrated multidimensional approach identifying cultural heritage corridors, making it possible for the protection, preservation, and development of these corridors.

Development of Visual Media Characteristic of Batak Culture “Dalihan Na Tolu” for Students in 6th Grade Elementary School

The research is using the 4 D Thiagarajan development model consisting of Define, Design, Development and Dissemination. The validation results of three experts consisting of material experts, design experts and media experts with a very decent category. Once validated by the three experts, the media tested on two groups of small groups and big groups by demonstrating the effectiveness of the media. One of the patterns of kinship adopted from the value of Batak culture contains many positive and good elements that can be used as a role model in the use of technology. Making the use of technology is growing by having a cultural corridor that can align in its development and use in both the digital world though. In this study gave birth to a visual learning media that collaborated with the values of Batak culture.

Mimari ve Kültürel Mirasın Sürdürülmesi İçin Tarihi Bir Koridorun Canlandırılması; Alsancak İzmir'den Coğrafi Bilgi Sistemleri (CBS) Temelli Bir Örnek

History, culture and ecology are important values which constitutes unique identity of the cities. In this context, it is crucial to sustain, protect and respect heritage values for the future generations. This values also create personal attachment to the place for the urbanites. The aim of this research is to collecting data of architectural heritage through the 1469th Street to conserve and revitalize the historical corridor from the Historical Alsancak Station to the waterfront promenade Kordon using Geographic Information System. The research area is located in Alsancak district, İzmir Turkey. Data collection was conducted from the research field scoring for each building based on Newman’s Model for conservation degree of historical values of each building. The variables of the model evaluating structures were; time frame of construction, land use change, architectural modification, and building condition. When categorizing structures the total score of each one offered the degree of historical value protection. To assess the density of historical potential of the 1469. Street Hot Spot Analysis, Inverse Distance Weighted Interpolation, and Weighted Sum Analysis were implemented. 25 percent of the Street has been protected historical value, while almost 42 percent of the area was evaluated as a loss of history. In the final, suggestions were placed to offer new usage strategies for the future adaptive reuse possibilities and renovation interventions to revitalize the street and create a historic cultural corridor from Alsancak Station to Kordon.

Francis Bacon, Jan Baptist Van Helmont and Demetrius Cantemir. Family resemblances of auctoritas in Early Modern Europe

The present paper stakes out the destiny of certain ideas on scientific methods and epistemic and ontological representations that spread in 17th century Europe like a cultural epidemiology of representations against a deist, theosophical, empiricist and occult maze-like background. Our intellectual history study evaluates the family resemblances of auctoritas of three polymaths: Francis Bacon, Jan Baptist Van Helmont and Demetrius Cantemir along the cultural corridors of knowledge. If Francis Bacon was a theoretical founder of doctrines and Jan Baptist Van Helmont was a complex experimenting spirit, Demetrius Cantemir was an able disseminator of philosophy in South Eastern Europe and a creative synthetic spirit bridging the Divan ideas of Western and Eastern minds caught up in the busy exchange of ideas of the Republic of Letters.

Design of Tourism Development in Cultural Corridors and Public Spaces in Kraton Yogyakarta Area

This study aims to find out the design concept approach of the tourism area in the cultural corridor and public space in the Kraton Yogyakarta area. This research is located along the main corridor, namely KH Agus Salim Street which is the main link between the Suryobrantan Bus Terminal (Ngabean), KH Agus Salim Road Area, Ngasem and North Squareas an analysis public space usage. This research use a qualitative descriptive analysis, a kind of method that focuses on understanding social phenomena in certain spaces, namely in the region, this method emphasizes more on research that has a clear picture and in accordance with the facts in the field. Another method used is, quantitative research method, namely a method known as giving an image of an object through certain analytical techniques. The analysis in this study emphasizes several aspects such as: 1) Aspects of tourism area development; 2) Aspects of architectural visual continuity in regional facades, 3) Aspects of Connectedness Degree, 4) Analysis of regional functions. This research results showed that the 4 aspects mentioned had a strong influence on the design concept of the built area along the cultural corridor and public space in the Kraton Yogyakarta Area.

Reinforcing identity: Bringing the new face of Malioboro Historic Place, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

The significant character of architecture for the majority places in the world will shape unique identity of place. Malioboro Street is a main commercial, historic and cultural corridor in the historic city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. For couple of years, because of the modern development and economic reasons, the unique characters of buildings in Malioboro was going to fade away, covered mostly by commercial signboard, and some others had a different appearance from street walls pattern. This paper aims to examine to what extent the changes in the character of Malioboro street facades before and after the interference from the local government and how far the commercial signboard ‘hides’ the uniqueness of the building facades before and after the government initiatives was published. A qualitative method is carried out to examine to what extent the modernity and commercial interests influence the continuity of typical building facades in Malioboro Street. This method attempts to measure the degree of continuity in facade of significant buildings through calculation of the coverage percentage and placement of commercial signboard. The result shows there are significant positive change in bringing back the identity of Malioboro regarding the type, size, and placement of building façade commercial signboard.

What Difference Does Public Participation Make? An Alternative Futures Assessment Based on the Development Preferences for Cultural Landscape Corridor Planning in the Silk Roads Area, China

Landscape corridor planning (LCP) has become a widespread practice for promoting sustainable regional development. This highly complex planning process covers many policy and planning issues concerning the local landscape, and ideally involves the people who live in the area to be developed. In China, regional planners and administrators encourage the development of landscape corridor planning. However, the current LCP process rarely considers ideas from local residents, and public participation is not recognized as beneficial to planning outcomes. We use a specific Chinese case of LCP to analyze how citizen involvement may enrich sustainable spatial planning in respect to ideas considered and solutions developed. To this end, we compare a recently approved landscape corridor plan that was created without public participation with alternative solutions for the same landscape corridor, developed with the involvement of local residents. These alternatives were then evaluated by professional planners who had been involved in the initial planning process. We demonstrate concrete differences between planning solutions developed with and without public participation. Further, we show that collaborative processes can minimize spatial conflicts. Finally, we demonstrate that public participation does indeed contribute to innovations that could enrich the corridor plan that had been produced exclusively by the decision-makers. The paper closes with a discussion of difficulties that might accompany the involvement of local residents during sustainable LCP in China.

Evolution of the Cultural Trade Network in “the Belt and Road” Region: Implication for Global Cultural Sustainability

While there has been increasing concern with respect to the sustainable development of “the Belt and Road” region, the majority of studies have focused on economic and environmental dimensions. This paper focuses on the temporal cultural trade network between the 66 countries of this region between 1990 and 2016. A social network analysis method was used to analyze the cultural trade network and its temporal evolution, where results detected key nodes and cultural corridors. Furthermore, the conceptual point-line-polygon model, which summarizes the expansion of such cultural nodes and corridors between 1990 and 2016, reveals the rapid development of cultural exchanges within the region. Here, the varied roles of large and small-sized countries were found to be dominated by China, Russia, and India. While the cultural trade network has promoted the integration of cultural diversity into the global market, to achieve global cultural sustainability more active trading relations with small-sized countries should be encouraged.