Cultural District Research Articles

Primenenie koncepcii narrativnogo montazha v vizual'nom dizajne istoricheskih i kul'turnyh rajonov

The conservation and development of historical and cultural districts is a very important part of the current urban construction and development. This article examines the application of narrative montage in the visual design of historical and cultural districts, combining specific cases to illustrate how the montage technique can be used to enhance the spatial atmosphere and give people a visual impact and emotional resonance.

Art enticements in cultural waterfronts: their perimuseal span in the Bilbao estuary beyond the Guggenheim

The opening of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in 1997 intensified a discernible presence of monuments, museums, galleries and other establishments in its surroundings by defining a cultural district. In this gentrified neighbourhood, there are still a few artists-run spaces left, while ever more studios of architects and designers are spreading by the riverside, where the domino effect seemingly results in a musealisation of public art as civic heritage and a tourist attraction.

Factors affecting the development of Lipu Yi costumes: intangible cultural heritage tourism

PurposeThe primary purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of tourists' perceived value, satisfaction and behavioral intention on the development of Lipu Yi costume culture to promote the development of intangible cultural tourism and better construct a model of the influencing factors of Lipu Yi costumes in the development of intangible cultural heritage tourism.Design/methodology/approachThe study site is the intangible cultural district of Panzhihua, Sichuan Province, China. This study examines the interrelationships between tourists' perceived value of experience, behavioral intention and satisfaction as the tourists relate to Lipu Yi costume and intangible cultural heritage tourism. A sample of 225 tourists who had visited Panzhihua at least once was selected for the study.FindingsAll seven of the survey's hypotheses were supported. Therefore, this study concludes that tourists' perceived value, satisfaction and behavioral intention directly affect the development of intangible cultural tourism and significantly positively impact the growth of Lipu Yi costumes culture. Descriptive analysis, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural equation modeling (SEM) investigation methods were used.Originality/valueThis paper analyzes tourists' perceived value of Lipu costume culture and tourists' satisfaction and behavioral intention during the tourism process. This study provides a more in-depth understanding of the relationship between Lipu Yi costume and non-heritage tourism factors. Practical methods and approaches are sought to further develop Lipu Yi costume non-heritage tourism.

A model approach for post evaluation of adaptive reuse of architectural heritage: a case study of Beijing central axis historical buildings

The adaptive reuse of architectural heritage is the basis of embodying its core value, bringing new life to heritage architecture, and is an important way to integrate it into contemporary development. In many current studies, the adaptive reuse of architectural heritage focuses on the research framework of adaptive reuse and the most effective method for adaptive reuse of a certain building. In the whole process, the post evaluation strategy of adaptive reuse based on specific cultural background is ignored, and the adaptive reuse of heritage buildings is a dynamic process. Therefore, this study takes 9 heritage sites along the central axis of Beijing (including three types of single buildings, architectural complexes, and historical and cultural district) as examples. The 25 factors affecting the adaptive reuse of architectural heritage are extracted by the literature retrieval method, and are divided into three categories according to the content: existing fabric, spatial character and policy and value. Then the analytic hierarchy process and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation are used to calculate the factors of 9 heritage sites in matrix, and finally obtain the reuse score of each heritage site. The results show that Meridian Gate has the highest comprehensive score for reuse in single buildings, the Forbidden City has the highest score for reuse in building complex, and Qianmen Street has the highest score in historical and cultural district. This study provides post-evaluation methods and strategies for the adaptive reuse of architectural heritage. Finally, a post-evaluation framework for the adaptive reuse of architectural heritage is formed. Finally, a post-evaluation framework for the reuse of architectural heritage against a specific cultural background has been formed. In the future, the status of the reuse of architectural heritage can be evaluated to maintain its proper authenticity, integrity and sustainability at any time. It can also guide the relevant decision-making before the adaptive reuse of architectural heritage and the optimization process after the adaptive reuse of architectural heritage.

Urban design strategies fostering creative workers' sense of identity in creative and cultural districts in East Asia: An integrated knowledge-driven approach

In recent years, many cultural districts have become increasingly unsustainable due to the neglect of physical environment quality. Hence, researchers have thoroughly investigated the close relationship between the physical environment quality of cultural districts and creative workers' sense of identity in creative and cultural districts (CCDs). However, few studies have clarified the complex relationship between physical environment factors and creative workers' sense of identity from a systematic perspective. Therefore, this study aims to establish a hybrid multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) model to identify the relationship between physical environment factors and creative workers' sense of identity using an integrated knowledge-driven approach that combines the rough set approach (RSA) and the decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) method. A total of 81 CCD cases in East Asia were selected to validate the proposed hybrid MCDM model. As result, through RSA, four core attributes that can help creative workers to form a sense of identity in CCDs were extracted, they are the quality of public art, the order and cleanliness of the building facade, the open spaces supporting social activities and the green beautification degree and characteristics. Then, 23 rules (If…Then…) were established. Additionally, through DEMATEL, the dominant influence relationships among these attributes were clarified based on expert knowledge. A “decision path map” driven by the “integrated knowledge” was developed, which can contribute to formulating and implementing strategies for systematically improving the physical environments of CCDs and consequently fostering creative workers' sense of identity. Specifically, our results show that project managers and designers pay attention to maintaining the authenticity of historical buildings in CCDs and focus on creating appropriate color environments and personalized private spaces based on the audience's aesthetic preferences and private habits to evoke a sense of local identity and belonging in creative workers.

영주 근대역사문화거리의 근대건축물 유형분류 및 활용제안

In 2018, the Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea introduced a new system that registers national cultural heritage in street and district units. Yeongju City’s Modern Historical and Cultural District was selected as the first trial region. This grouping method breaks through conservation and utilization limitations of cultural heritage in individual building units. Thus, the issue is how will such historical and cultural spaces be grouped, conserved and managed. Hence, this study identifies the current situation of buildings in the Modern Historical and Cultural Street of Yeongju and conducts an experimental survey. Based on this, the types of modern architecture were classified, and the architectural groups were extracted and categorized to preserve and utilize the architecture. For these purposes, priority groups were determined by evaluating them based on five criteria: archetype, placeness, politicalness, typicality and originality. The modern architecture in the Modern Historical and Cultural Street of Yeongju have undergone many changes. The residential transformation of small and medium-sized cities during modern times can be understood as a process of settlement and nativization.

Research on Public Space Micro-Renewal Strategy of Historical and Cultural Blocks in Sanhe Ancient Town under Perception Quantification

The public space environment of historical and cultural blocks is inseparable from human activities, which affects tourists’ behavior and perception activities. Through the evaluation of tourists’ environmental behavior perception, the relationship between spatial characteristics and tourists’ perception is fully considered, which plays an important role in the protection and development of public space in historical and cultural blocks. This paper takes the historical and cultural block of Sanhe Ancient Town in Hefei as the research area, focusing on the public space of the block. Through the analysis of the semantic differential method and eye movement legal quantitative analysis, from the angle of psychological perception and visual perception, we carried out an analysis of the historical and cultural block’s public space, and built the double sense of a comprehensive evaluation system of parsing the historical and cultural blocks with the whole situation of public space and the rule of the performance. The results show that: (1) the visual perception preference for spatial elements is in the order of architectural structure > green landscape > architectural decoration > commercial activities > participants > pavement > street furniture > others. (2) There is a significant correlation but not a complete convergence of psychological perception and visual perception. (3) Buildings, structures, and space formats play a key role in creating a sense of space scale, with the former playing a positive role and the latter a negative role. (4) The visual attraction of a green landscape is strong and can improve the visual quality of space. The research found that there are evaluation differences between the visual perception and psychological perception of spatial elements, which are significantly correlated but not fully convergent. Through quantitative analysis and the interpretation of tourists’ perception from different perspectives, we can take relevant improvement and optimization measures for many deficiencies of public space in historical and cultural districts.

Sustainable Renewal of Spontaneous Spatial Characteristics of a Historical–Cultural District: A Case Study of Tanhualin, Wuhan, China

Based on a fixed-point survey of spontaneous space in the Tanhualin area of Wuhan, China, spontaneous space samples were obtained. The spatial typology method was used to summarize and compare the morphological and functional characteristics of the samples, and the space was divided into 10 types and seven functions. Through quantitative statistical analysis of the relationship between different spontaneous space forms and their spatial functions, it was found that residents’ behavior in daily life has a significant effect on spontaneous space renewal and district renewal. Based on the study of the spontaneous space of the Tanhualin historical–cultural district, this study determined the status quo of the space renewal and development of the district and put forward corresponding protection and renewal strategies. Finally, it provides a theoretical basis for the sustainable renewal and coordinated development of historical–cultural districts.

Research on the Protection and Renewal of Wanshougong Historical and Cultural Block from the Perspective of Living Inheritance

As an important part of the historical and cultural city, with the acceleration of urbanization, the protection of the block will face many challenges, aiming at the problems of breaking the traditional texture of the streets and alleys, the carrier of cultural inheritance has been destroyed, how to achieve the connection between historical inheritance and the development of the times, it is urgent to study the corresponding mode and method. From the perspective of living inheritance, this paper compares the before and after the renovation of Nanchang Wanshougong historical and cultural district through the field research and literature investigation of Nanchang Wanshougong, explores the application of intangible cultural heritage in the renewal and transformation of historical and cultural districts, and puts forward feasible suggestions for the shortcomings of historical and cultural districts after transformation.

基于POI的历史文化街区活力分析及策略研究——以杭州市小河直街为例

基于POI的历史文化街区活力分析及策略研究——以杭州市小河直街为例

중국 역사문화거리에 문화 중심의 사운드스케이프 기초 연구

Historic and cultural districts are the precious wealth of a city, and the soundscape is an important part of the environment of historic and cultural districts. In recent years, people have signed the Nara Authenticity Document and other international conventions, marking that they began to realize the significance and role of soundscape for the protection of historic and cultural districts. Based on the trend, this study takes the historic and cultural districts from the Ming and Qing dynasties to the Republic of China as the research object, and summarizes the basic concept of the culture-centered soundscape in the historic and cultural districts, which provides the theoretical basis for the subsequent research on the remediation and protection of it. It adapts the research methods of advance research and theoretical investigation of literature data. And it concludes the definition, type and characteristics of the soundscape in the historic and cultural districts through the collation and analysis of the documents. It also concludes the definition, type, constituent elements and characteristics of culture-centered soundscape in historic and cultural districts through the combination of the connotation and characteristics of “culture” and the research literature of culture-centered soundscape. Finally, it derives the basic concept of culture-centered soundscape in historic and cultural districts, which provides a theoretical basis and guidance for a series of subsequent studies and the protection of it.

Research on the Protection and Regeneration of Historical and Cultural District from Game of Interest: A Case Study of Xiaoxi Historical and Cultural Street in Huzhou

The protection and regeneration of historical and cultural district is an important way to continue the historical context of the city and inherit the traditional spatial pattern, and is the key to the implementation of orderly urban regeneration. In view of this, the author takes Xiaoxi Historical and Cultural Street in Huzhou as an example, expands and decomposes the game model of stakeholders from the perspective of the game of interests, and studies its dynamic changes in the process of protection and regeneration of the historical and cultural district. This paper expounds the contradictions affecting the game relationship of interests from the four elements of government, residents, developers and lessees. The results indicated that the non-traditional top-down update model lacks stability, which affects the implementation of decision-making.

Extending the Theory of Planned Behavior with the Self-Congruity Theory to Predict Tourists’ Pro-Environmental Behavioral Intentions: A Two-Case Study of Heritage Tourism

Tourists’ pro-environmental behaviors are critical to the conservation of cultural landscape heritage and for the sustainability of heritage tourism. Applying the theories of planned behavior (TPB) and self-congruity, this research explained the formation of tourists’ pro-environmental behavioral intentions (TPEBI). A total of 342 effective responses were gathered at a heritage destination, while another set of data was collected from a historic cultural destination for cross-validation (n = 345). The findings indicated that: (1) there are direct and positive associations between TPEBI and attitudes toward the behavior, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, self-congruity, and functional congruity; (2) functional congruity mediates the association between self-congruity and TPEBI; (3) the “congruity-TPB” framework has greater predictive capacity in comparison to the single model; (4) a cross-validation approach found consistent results by using a historic cultural district as another case. Taking both rational and value-expressive factors into consideration, the current study expands the applicability of the self-congruity theory in TPEBI research. Findings produce some new insights into sustainable destination management.

Research on the renewal of architectural landscape and public cognition in LianBaoLi Historical and cultural block in Wuhan

As an important part of the city's cultural heritage, historical and cultural blocks have witnessed the city's historical changes, leaving many valuable natural and human resources. However, after many years of baptism, historical and cultural blocks, now the destruction of buildings and cultural relics, poor living environment, frequent population flow, these are obviously not in line with the modern city, the direction of urban development. In order to promote the revival of historical and cultural blocks, it is imperative to renovate the blocks, which is also an inevitable measure under the background of urban renewal. LianBaoLi Historic and cultural district, as the root of Wuhan City and the source of its history, is one of the outstanding historic buildings in Wuhan. Its renewal is conducive to the spread of Wuhan's historical and architectural culture, to drive high-quality development in Wuhan. In addition, the public is the main body of the renewal of the historical and cultural blocks, studying their awareness of the renewal of the historical and cultural blocks in LianBaoLi , to measure the effect of the implementation of the block renewal policy, to identify whether there is any deviation between the public cognition and the cognition of the public policy makers, and to provide some solutions for the sustainable development of the historical and cultural block in LianBaoLi ,to add to Wuhan's urban fabric.

Vitality evaluation of historical and cultural districts based on the values dimension: districts in Beijing City, China

Historical and cultural districts are an important part of the urban heritage environment, reflecting the urban characteristics and carrying the core value of urban development. At present, most of the research on the vitality of historical and cultural districts mainly carries out quantitative evaluation from the two aspects of material space and time dimension, while the analysis on the value level is weakened, and the content of value type evaluation is also ignored. Value is the main factor affecting the vitality of historical and cultural districts, and it is also the core content to keep them alive. Therefore, this study takes nine historical and cultural districts of three types (cultural, commercial and residential) in Beijing, the capital of China, as examples to form a vitality evaluation framework with value as the evaluation goal, and select three indicators: historical value (including historical environment, cultural environment and spatial environment), use value (including communication environment, business environment and residential environment) and sustainable value (including educational environment, attraction and creativity), which correspond to the past, present and future of the heritage respectively. The literature summary method is used to get the evaluation content, the ranking analytic hierarchy process is used to determine the index weight, experts are invited to score, and the influence degree of each factor is comprehensively ranked and analyzed. Finally, it puts forward the evaluation system of historical and cultural districts. The framework can be used to collect expert opinions, conduct quantitative value evaluation, and adjust various indicators in practice before the protection strategy of historical and cultural districts is proposed. The results show that at present, Shichahai, Nanluoguxiang and Fuchengmennei have the highest vitality among the three types. The blocks that mainly embody cultural value have higher vitality than those that mainly embody commercial value and residential value.

Characteristics of the Environment and Landscape Planning of the Historic and Cultural District of the First Automobile Factory

Characteristics of the Environment and Landscape Planning of the Historic and Cultural District of the First Automobile Factory

Rebuilding Cultural Ethos in Urban Storefronts: Two Arts Districts in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas

Dallas-Fort Worth, the fastest growing region in Texas, has been criticized for decades for auto-centric and corporate development, which has restricted the sustainable design of cultural venues in need of permeable access to the community. Meanwhile, the city's arts districts – Bishop Arts District and Deep Ellum, officially designated as Cultural Districts in the Dallas Cultural Plan – are known for their clusters of murals, live music venues, and independent businesses, which exemplify the transformation of the forgo en historic streetcar corridors into bohemian cultural destinations. This paper examines the revitalization of Deep Ellum and the Bishop Arts District that have both become successful local destinations with walkable commercial streets. First, we review the literature on cultural placemaking in a post-industrial urban context. Next, using US Census data, we explore the socio-demographic environment of the two neighbourhoods. Then, synthesizing a Geographic Information System (GIS) data set and Google Street imagery, we analyse storefronts that have been modi fied for cultural use. Urban development of cultural districts shows that reusing storefronts can and should be contextually adapted to the existing built landscape and socio-cultural environment to satisfy both communities' needs and to enhance local economic growth. In view of cultural placemaking, the city should develop a policy that increases pedestrian and transit access to cultural districts, aff ordable housing, and spaces for artists and residents, and spurs innovative, often post-retail, cultural storefront repurposing through community engagement in order to build incremental, long-term resilience.

Hong Kong as a Global Art Hub: Art Ecology and Sustainability of Asia’s Art Market Centre

Over the past decade, Hong Kong’s art market has experienced unprecedented growth, emerging as the second largest in the world in 2020 in terms of contemporary art auctions. Factors such as the city’s free-market economy and well-developed infrastructure, as well as its unique position as a gateway to the large and growing Chinese art market, have led to major global art fairs and galleries establishing their presence in the city, in addition to the already present international auction houses. Moreover, the recent opening of M+, Hong Kong’s new museum of visual culture, as part of the West Kowloon Cultural District, is designed to further seal Hong Kong’s position and contribute to the continued growth of its art market. This paper explores the Hong Kong art ecosystem and its sustainability by focusing on leading art market institutions, anchor cultural organizations, and other key actors driving the development of the Hong Kong art system, on both the commercial and the nonprofit side; the effects of the expanding art market on the city’s art scene; the dynamics of the relationship between the Hong Kong art market and the broader Chinese art market; and the key emerging opportunities and challenges to Hong Kong’s future development as Asia’s premier art hub.

Cultural Centers in Hong Kong: Welfare Provision or Economic Instrument?

“Cultural center” is a new type of architecture and institution that has emerged since WWII and has become a model for many contemporary cultural institutions. It reflects the physical realization of the European welfare-state cultural policy, especially in Britain and France. With reference to the European cases, this paper examines three major cultural centers in Hong Kong from the 1960s to the present day (City Hall, Hong Kong Cultural Center, and the Xiqu Center at the West Kowloon Cultural District). Employing a socio-spatial approach, the methods include an archival study of government documents and spatial analysis of public space at the selected cultural centers. The paper demonstrates how the positioning of culture has shifted from a public welfare provision into a capital-oriented urban development strategy and, in this context, questions the role of contemporary cultural institutions.

Research on The Success Factors of Preserving Historical and Cultural Districts

With the acceleration of urbanization, excessive urbanization and cluster expansion threaten the traditional environment of historical and cultural districts. The preservation of historical and cultural districts has become an important issue for urban development. Through literature review and case analysis, the six success factors are summarized in this article for historical and cultural district preservation: historical and cultural heritage, public participation, government actions, community construction, economic subsidies, and landscape appearance. By using the interpretive structure model to integrate the success factors, it has been concluded that historical and cultural heritage is the most basic factor. The results of this research provide an effective reference to enhance the preservation of historical areas.