scholarly journals The Cultural Landscape of the “Grecanic Area” and the Recovery of the Genius Loci of its Historical Centres

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 464-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniele Campolo
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
Natural Heritage ◽  
Local Resources ◽  
New Discovery

The “Grecanic Area” in the province of Reggio Calabria is a region with an enormous heritage of great cultural value, surrounded by a still intact natural heritage, but now, despite some attempts to nominate the “Ellenofona Island” (ancient Greek - speaking area) in the List of the immense Cultural Heritage of mankind, this territory is not still considered despite of its value: it would be sufficient to focus mainly on the values ​​of the great cultural heritage and the natural heritage and on the “genius loci” of the historic centres of the “Grecanic Area”. The aim of this paper is to highlight how the protection and enhancement of these assets could contrast phenomena of emigration and depopulation of the inland areas and the socio-economic disintegration in favour of a re-appropriation of the cultural identity of an area that has remained virtually unchanged for many centuries. Starting from the new discovery of the "genius loci" of the ancient historic villages in the Grecanic Area, the conservation and the enhancement of natural and great heritage allows to pursue a sustainable development, using local resources as a “visiting card” of the territory, the natural landscape and the wildlife heritage.

Design & Research of the Traditional Waterfront Interface Houses in Shanghai Ecological Transformation - Pudong Ancient Shao Jia Lou Town House

2012 ◽  
Vol 524-527 ◽  
pp. 2667-2673
Author(s):  
Xin Qun Feng ◽  
Chen Du ◽  
Xiao Dong Liu
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Ventilation System ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
Traditional Architecture ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
New Energy ◽  
Local Residents

The natural landscape of the pudong ancient town in Shanghai's waterfront with "bridges, water, people" rich in distinctive cultural landscape has always been popular. Rustic country setting and its rich cultural heritage have attracted many people to want to get to know it. Ancient town in Shanghai have been famous in the world too. "Authenticity" town folk culture is the essence of the town's cultural heritage. On one hand, the attention to the life of local residents and traditional architecture "authenticity" can revitalize traditional cultural heritage, promote tourism development and protection of ancient town. On the other hand, building ecology, energy conservation, and sustainability are the current world trend, most importantly the needs of the world's sustainable economic development. In this paper, taking Shao Jia Lou town house as an example for the transformation of the traditional waterfront interface, based on the waterfront interface environmental features, the adoption of the internal layout of the building materials and re-design the ventilation system, heating systems and new energy sources, ecological transformation has been carefully designed. In addition, some practical design studies have been done regarding the diversification of the use of small space. The precondition of making people aware of China's traditional ecological transformation of the waterfront interface is to extend the traditional culture, ancient town in Shanghai, protect and improve the waterfront environment and raise living standards.

scholarly journals World cultural heritage monuments in Kosovo and Metohija: Problems and perspectives of protection

2021 ◽  
pp. 89-99
Author(s):  
Marko Nikolić ◽  
Marta Vukotić-Lazar ◽  
Mirjana Roter-Blagojević
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
International System ◽  
Ethnic Conflicts ◽  
Natural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Assets ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
World Cultural Heritage ◽  
Albanian Population

In 2006, the UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage Committee inscribed four Serbian medieval shrines from Kosovo and Metohija on the World Heritage List, in danger due to difficulties in their preservation and management, as well as the damage they suffered during ethnic conflicts, namely: the Church of Bogorodica Ljeviška in Prizren and the Peć Patriarchate, Dečani and Gračanica monasteries. In accordance with United Nations Resolution 1244, they are currently under the control of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo and Metohija. However, in addition to these monuments, the cultural and demographic identity of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija is illustrated by over 1,500 established cultural assets (monasteries, churches, cemeteries, etc.) that testify to the centuries-old presence of the Serbian people and Orthodox faith in this area and their material and spiritual culture, as works of the overall European cultural heritage created in the intertwining of the influences of Eastern and Western Christianity and culture. The inclusion of these four cultural assets of great importance for Serbia in the international system of protection and monitoring has led to initiating the consideration of a comprehensive and long-term view of cultural heritage in Kosovo and Metohija at the international level as a key element in establishing better cultural and overall relations between Serbs and the Albanian population. The paper discusses the problems and possibilities of improving the protection and presentation of World Cultural and Natural Heritage in Kosovo and Metohija, as well as the expansion of the list, through the integration of international, national and local protection, and understanding of this area as a specific cultural landscape. Presenting the value of the heritage as a comprehensive cultural landscape which combines natural tangible and intangible aspects, as well as the organization of cultural, educational and other activities, would encourage respect for the diversity, integrity and identity of others, which is an unavoidable condition in the process of European integration currently opposed by ethnic groups.

Ulos as Batak Cultural Wisdom Towards World Heritage

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 853-864
Author(s):  
Rizki Ananda Hasibuan ◽  
Saefur Rochmat
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Inner World ◽  
World Organization ◽  
Descriptive Method

Ulos as one of Indonesia's intangible cultural heritages is the fruit of thought and the result of high quality art as an ancestral heritage that must be preserved. The sacred value of ulos is a picture of the inner world of the Batak people. Each ulos has a meaning and purpose between the giver and recipient of ulos. The stipulation of ulos as an intangible cultural heritage of Indonesia is a new hope to move towards a world heritage. The purpose of writing this article is to describe ulos as a Batak cultural identity that has been established as an intangible cultural heritage of Indonesia accompanied by efforts to become a world heritage, in addition to increasing literacy about Ulos. The method used in this paper is descriptive method, by describing the existing phenomena and collecting literature study data. Under the auspices of UNESCO as the world organization that houses cultural heritage, every country is obliged to report and propose new cultural heritage to become world heritage on a regular basis. With this step, Ulos under the auspices of the Aceh BPNB (Cultural Value Conservation Center) continues to strive and strive to be registered in accordance with the requirements of a cultural heritage to become a world heritage.

scholarly journals Recovering the heritage and building traditions of the village of Tacora, Chile

2020 ◽  
pp. 235-240
Author(s):  
Martina Bocci ◽  
Beatriz Yuste
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Building Trades ◽  
The Village ◽  
The City

Tacora is a village in the Chilean highlands with an extraordinary natural and cultural landscape. During the last years, its population has migrated massively to the city of Arica. In 2018, the community and the Fundación Altiplano organized a training program for the restoration of the façades of its buildings. The program employed and qualified community members in traditional building trades related to construction with earth, stone and wood. This training program opens up a horizon of new opportunities for sustainable development related to the extraordinary cultural heritage of Tacora.

scholarly journals Traditional Cultural Heritage vs. Film Sceneries: Evaluating the Degree of Sustainability of Cultural Landscapes

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 621-630
Author(s):  
Esther San Sebastián Poch ◽  
Urtzi Llano Castresana ◽  
Ander de la Fuente Arana
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Host Society ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Historic Centre ◽  
Study Case

Cultural tourism is a good way to promote and, consequently, safeguard the cultural heritage of sites. Film tourism is an increasingly demanded form of cultural tourism more focused on the fictional rather than on the authenticity of sites, depriving them from their true identity. This article is proposing a system of indicators of sustainable development in order to evaluate and guarantee long-term sustainability in those sites identified with traditional cultural heritage and where films have been shot. The Historic Centre of Peñíscola, which was declared a Historic-Artistic Site in 1972 and has become film scenery in numerous occasions, has been chosen to be evaluated. The union of a series of film sceneries obtained from the cinema productions that best match the local heritage, through the latter has resulted in a final cultural landscape where the degree of conciliation between them is high. Therefore, the welfare of the host society is in balance with the tourist demands, which makes the Historic Centre of Peñíscola an accurate study case that can contribute to improve a methodology we aim to extrapolate to other tourist destinations threatened by a new uncontrolled mass of tourist.

The Potential Role of Ecoacoustics in the Study of the Coffee Natural Landscape of Colombia

2022 ◽  
pp. 180-201
Author(s):  
Fernando Martínez-Tabares ◽  
Germán Castellanos-Domínguez ◽  
Mauricio Orozco-Alzate
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Matrix Factorization ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Future Work

In 2011, the Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia (CCLC) was inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List. Several studies have been undertaken to increase its knowledge and promote its conservation and sustainable development; however, there still exists a gap between the knowledge of the visible features of this landscape and the audible ones, which are associated to anthropophonic, geophonic, and, mainly, to biophonic sound-emitting sources. The perception or recording of the audible features in a place has been recently termed as soundscape and is studied by a relatively novel discipline known as ecoacoustics. This chapter is, therefore, aimed to discuss the potential opportunities and challenges of applying ecoacoustic methods—particularly non-negative matrix factorization and acoustic indices—to enrich the study of the CCLC. Essential concepts for both the CCLC and ecoacoustics are also briefly explained, along with an outline of future work directions in short- and long-term perspectives.

scholarly journals The Sustainable Development of Urban Cultural Heritage Gardens Based on Tourists’ Perception: A Case Study of Tokyo’s Cultural Heritage Gardens

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (16) ◽  
pp. 6315
Author(s):  
Ge Chen ◽  
Jiaying Shi ◽  
Yiping Xia ◽  
Katsunori Furuya
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
View Factor ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Modern Cities ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Visual Impact ◽  
Landscape Morphology

For the cultural heritage gardens in the urban environment, modern high-rise buildings inevitably change their original landscape and form a new landscape experience with visual impact. Whether cultural heritage gardens and modern cities can coexist harmoniously is one of the critical issues to achieve their sustainable development. This research aimed to find an indicator of landscape morphology, which can predict the visitor’s cognition for such cultural landscape forms. This study surveyed tourists’ preferences in six selected cultural heritage gardens in Tokyo. We used hemispheric panoramas to calculate the view factors of certain elements of the landscape at the observation points. The results showed that Sky View Factor was a positive predictor of tourists’ preference, and this predictability did not change significantly with the attributes of tourists. We also found that tourists’ attitudes towards the high-rise buildings outside the gardens have become more tolerant and diverse. These findings could be applied to predict visitors’ perception preference of cultural heritage landscape in the context of urban renewal, contributing to the sustainable development of cultural heritage landscape and urbanization.

scholarly journals Impacts of climate change on cultural heritage; The case of the Greek theatre of Dionysus

2021 ◽  
Vol 899 (1) ◽  
pp. 012020
Author(s):  
Marina Panagiota Nastou ◽  
Stelios Zerefos
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
Tangible Result ◽  
Proactive Planning ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Abstract Climate change is an ongoing fact with evident impacts on earth, humanity and our heritage. The management and protection of heritage from the effects of climate change should be taken into consideration, so as to act dynamically and immediately, since the effects of climate change are rapidly evident in all aspects of life. The objective of this research is to study the vulnerability of the ancient Greek Theatre of Dionysus, as it forms a monument with embedded heritage values exposed to the climate change. This case study is the tangible result of a particular cultural and historic research, bearing historic knowledge, cultural meanings via a recognizable architectural structure and it reflects the conjunction of culture with society and nature. Materiality and its pathology combined with the condition of the natural landscape and the altering pattern of cultural tourism can lead to the study of climate change imprint on this kind of heritage, which should be examined as a wholeness of culture and nature. The uniqueness in the Theatre’s identity and historic path deserves interpretation of the effects of climate change, so as to manage adaptation, proactive planning, mitigation and dissemination of the discovered results.

scholarly journals Nomadic tourism: stakeholder collaboration management for tourism development in Mongolia

2020 ◽  
pp. 59-72
Author(s):  
Damba Gantemur
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Stakeholder Collaboration ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Collaboration Management ◽  
Development Processes

This study has been produced for the purpose of furthering the debate on the importance of cultural identities in sustainable development processes by giving special emphasis to stakeholder collaboration management in the tourist industry. Tourism plays a critical role, both in strengthening cultural identity and promoting sustainable development. However, there issues that need to be addressed, such as, how tourism, especially community-based tourism (CBT) could help promote local culture, what is the role of key stakeholders, especially local people’s attitude towards sustainable development collaboration. These issues have been considered. So far, CBT is a kind of approach to promote sustainable tourism development, and also to be grounded the local circumstances. In other words, local cultural identity enriches and defines the CBT approach by way of matching local cultural identity and tourism development. Nomadic people are viewed as the key engine of their community, who epitomize the local identity. Finally, I propose “A nomad friendly tourism”, or “nomadic tourism” that can be seen as a development concept rather than CBT, and which is the practical tool that maintains the balance between natural and cultural landscape of the Mongols.

scholarly journals UNESCO’s tangible and intangible cultural heritage: Sustainable development perspectives

Pravovedenie ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-56
Author(s):  
Elena Sinibaldi ◽  
◽  
Antonio Parente ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Cultural Management ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Unesco Convention ◽  
Definition Of

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage has not only introduced a conceptual and applicative expansion of the interdisciplinary subjects applied to cultural heritage, but it has also increasingly encouraged an integrated planning of sustainable development policies for territories and communities that convey and shape their relative cultural and anthropomorphic identity, along with the re-thinking of the collective dimension of heritage in terms of rights to creation and fruition as well as the related cultural management. This article presents a reflection on the opportunity to identify and develop the relationship between tangible and intangible heritage as resources that are essential to one another. To this purpose, two illustrative UNESCO application paths are examined. The first relates to the recognition of The Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato as a Cultural Landscape of World Heritage, pursuant to the 1972 UNESCO Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, while the second concerns the inscription of the intangible element The Celebration of Celestinian Forgiveness in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of the UNESCO 2003 Convention. Due to differences in paradigms and application criteria under the two UNESCO Conventions, which are also detectable in the Italian regulatory context, these case studies offer the opportunity to advance an interdisciplinary reflection aimed at rethinking safeguarding contexts, as well as enhancement and increasing accessibility of cultural heritage. As a result of the reflection, an analysis of the concept of living in relation to the anthropological definition of organic landscape, representation of collective identities (community-based heritage), inclusive places and sociability (public policy), communicative restitution (universal ethical values), participatory management (participative brand making), and integrated sustainability is derived.

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