Historic Urban Areas in Heritage Tourism: Kuala Lumpur Historic City Centre, a Potential Asset

2015 ◽  
Vol 747 ◽  
pp. 93-96
Author(s):  
Meysam Deghati Najd ◽  
Nor Atiah Ismail ◽  
Mod Yazid Mohd Yunos ◽  
Suhardi Maulan
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Urban Heritage ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Historic City

In the process of the economy’s transit into the post-industrial societies to reach sustainability, the tourism industry has been growing through the past half century and has become one of the fastest-growing and largest sectors in the economy. Stability of this source of income demands crucial attempts in diversifying attractiveness of destinations for the purpose of both attracting more visitors as well as increasing their length of stay. In this regard, historic urban heritage has a significant potential and is an important asset, capable of boosting heritage tourism. Rapid development in Malaysia, has resulted in the formation of a global, identical and new image for its cities, particularly, Kuala Lumpur. Urbanization also leads to the deterioration of the Kuala Lumpur historic urban areas so that, the identity and historic image of city is being dominated by modernity. Therefore, this capacity of attraction is being marginalized in competition with other sources of attraction. This paper reports the finding of a study in which reviewing the current literature in addition to analysing the tourism trend and statistics in Malaysia resulted in the conceptualization of a proposed idea. This idea suggests proper consideration for enhancing the capability of Kuala Lumpur historic urban heritage besides its other attractiveness in advocating the tourism industry.

scholarly journals In search of resilient urban space : Pest’s city centre at the crossroads of tradition and innovation, 1928–1944

Socio hu ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 59-74
Author(s):  
Gábor Oláh
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Architectural Discourse ◽  
Urban Heritage ◽  
Historic City

In this paper my aim is to examine the Hungarian architectural discourse between 1928 and 1944, with special regard to the ‘historical’ centre of Pest. The observation is carried out through the review of architectural journals and theoretical essays. I undertake a historical analysis of the various uses and changes in the meaning of the concept of townscape. Analysis of the architectural discourse for this time interval might provide a better understanding of the transformation in the perception of urban space. The examined period can be boldly called the ‘dawn of urban heritage protection’, but also the age of a new urbanity that envisioned the rethinking of urban space through the reconstruction of complete urban areas. This paradox not only had a remarkable impact on rethinking of urban space, especially on determining values, but also led to experimental and hybrid spatial categories. My aim is to study this specific problem of social history, which not only made urban preservation part of the discourse but expanded it more and more as a continually growing ‘set’. This set captures and addresses the diverse aspects of urban life, making the concept of urban heritage even more complex. The fundamental questions of the study are how the discourse conceptualises urban spatial categories, more precisely, how the materiality of the built environment and representations of space are taken into account. The discourse on compatibility encompasses all strategic behaviours that seek to integrate the historic city and the new architectural solutions incorporating the needs of the present. In order to analyse the ways in which the city centre was constructed in the discourse, I incorporate the resilience model into the argument. Thus, the discussion may help understanding how changes in the interpretation of urban space result in a new attitude towards preservation, development or modernization of ‘historic’ neighbourhoods.

scholarly journals OPEN MUSEUM AS A TOOL FOR CULTURE SUSTAINABILITY: PRAMBANAN TEMPLE STUDY CASE

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Munadjat Wardoyo
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Study Case ◽  
Heritage Planning ◽  
The City

A city or region can not escape the rapid development from time to time. This development certainly begins with the planning that is well-prepared in all aspects that want to be developed in the city, where one of them is a cultural heritage. Planning or plans that are formed of course will directly or indirectly affect the entire related aspects, so it is very important to support historical buildings or other cultural heritage. Therefore, it suggests the concept of the open museum as a tool or a way to maintain and protect cultural heritage, which can then also help develop culture and heritage tourism in a particular city or region. In this discussion, it was also stated that the open museum is an effective tool to maintain urban heritage, maintain history and culture, and encourage sustainable tourism. There are two case studies that will be discussed in this paper, which are case studies from related journals, which are about the City of Mecca, which with the existence of urban development projects is feared to endanger the historical locations in the city. The planning solution which was then developed was by proposing to make the inner-city area a protected historical location and developing it as an open museum with the aim of giving consideration or recommendations for the maintenance and protection of the historical location of Mecca, and forming a sustainable tourism industry taking into account the existence of Hajj activities and Umrah business. The discussion of this paper will also be complemented by a reflection of the open museum concept in the Indonesian context, which focuses on the Prambanan Temple Complex as one of the applications of the open museum concept that can be used as a way to realize sustainable cultural heritage in urban areas.

scholarly journals In the shadow of the urban regeneration megaproject: Urban transitions in downtown Łódź, Poland

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 41-52
Author(s):  
Jarosław Kazimierczak ◽  
Piotr Kosmowski
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Business Community ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Functional Changes ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The City

Abstract The Nowe Centrum Łodzi project that was completed in 2007 in Łódź, Poland is one of the biggest contemporary large-scale urban (re)development projects in Europe and the largest project of this type in Central Europe. The principal goals of the mega-project in question include the regeneration of degraded post-industrial and post-railway land in the city centre of Łódź and the enhancement of competitiveness and the metropolitan position of the city. The authors seek to identify spatial and functional changes at a mezo-scale, i.e. in the so-called immediate neighbourhood of the urban regeneration megaproject (URMP), which have accompanied the implementation of the Nowe Centrum Łodzi project over the years 2013–2016. The other aim was to classify urban areas neighbouring the URMP based on features of spatial and functional transformation identified in these areas. The studies allowed the researchers to identify three categories of urban area in the immediate neighbourhood of the URMP which revealed differences in spatial and functional transformations. We indicated that the transformation of the immediate neighbourhood of the URMP involved not only the local authorities responsible for the overall improvement of the quality of public space but also other users, inter alia, residents, local urban activists, the business community, public institutions, and NGOs, that in most cases complemented efforts initiated by the Municipality. From the methodological point of view the authors use a case study including desk research, an urban planning inventory, and direct observation.

scholarly journals URBAN STRUCTURE OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA IN THE CONTEXT OF FORMATION OF A NEW TYPE OF URBAN FABRIC

World Science ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (10(38)) ◽  
pp. 4-9
Author(s):  
Andriy Pavliv
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Urban Forms ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
New Type ◽  
Post Industrial

The purpose of this article is to outline the changes and phenomena within the urban planning structure of the San Francisco bay area, which can be interpreted as impulses associated with the emergence of new post-industrial urban forms. Formation of the theory of impulse modeling of an urban organism requires not only theoretical generalizations and study of the material relating to the peculiarities of the post-industrial (informational) era, but also the search for practical phenomena associated with the rapid development of certain urban areas. At the same time, such development should not be confused with the concept of polycentrism, which was formed during the period of modernism.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF CULTURAL TOURISM IN THE AGE OF POST-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY

2020 ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Stepan Dychkovskyy
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Post Industrial

The aim of this paper consists in the study of trends in the development of cultural tourism of the post-industrial era. Research methodology. The author applies historical, bibliographic and analytical methods. Results. Art is an extremely important component of the tourism product, and cultural tourism is based on experience, according to which tourists become involved in the creative process, stimulating the activities presented to them. Tourism can qualitatively improve the processes of organizing and conducting games, festivals, competitions, exhibitions, giving those aesthetics and making them in the historic chronicle of the city. Festivals and holiday events play an important role in the development of cultural tourism. They are more accessible to the mass spectator because they are held in open venues, offer choices and are perceived as a lively and genuine holiday, inspiring their own self-improvement. Novelty. The author gives a rationale for the appropriateness and application of the new concept of cultural tourism, with the creation of even more specialized forms of tourism, one of which, namely, creative tourism. The practical significance. The study of issues within the framework of cultural tourism requires the use of an interdisciplinary approach, which acquires its clear features when choosing a subject of study. The interaction of culture and tourism, the cultural trajectories of modern tourism serve as a structure for analyzing the construction of identity and multiculturalism. Socio-cultural practices of modern tourism, developing in the context of global processes, have provided opportunities to systematically analyze and identify ways of positive practical implementation of its explicit and implicit opportunities. The material culture of the industrial age in the conditions of rapid development of the information society is considered as a historical resource that needed to be preserved and reused, and as a new direction of development of the tourism industry. Cultural tourism has become the main segment in most tourist destinations, but recently the focus has shifted from a purely quantitative increase in demand for the consumption of cultural and attractions to qualitative changes in the nature of this demand, which is based on the inherent desire to see and know parts of the world. In the modern literature on culture emphasizes its material component (buildings, structures, artifacts, works of art, etc.) and its elusive part (traditions, norms of behavior, beliefs, ideas, symbols, language, etc.). In this regard, for anyone, cultural tourism is not just an opportunity to get acquainted with some object of culture, but also to understand its interpretation, to learn new meanings through the environment, to assess the context (feel the atmosphere of the place), in other words, learn about the culture of the place and its inhabitants.

scholarly journals Analysis of sense of places effect on tourist’s length of stay in the Khota Baru cultural heritage zone

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-30
Author(s):  
Nik Mohamad Aizat Nik Mohd Adib ◽  
Syakir Amir Ab Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Length Of Stay ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Long Time

Heritage and cultural tourism are part of the tourism industry that must be maintained sustainability. Therefore heritage tourism destinations must be able to carry a “sense of place” as its focus. A sense of place is essential in attracting tourists to visit heritage sites for a long time. This article aims to assess the relationship between the Sense of Place between tourists, both domestic and international, and the length of stay in the Kota Bharu Cultural Heritage Zone. A total of 445 tourists participated as respondents by filling out a questionnaire survey. At the same time, data analysis was carried out using One way ANOVA. The results showed that the Sense of Place in the Kota Bharu Cultural Heritage Area affects the length of stay of tourists with eight correlated scales. Those eight scales are authenticity, historical value, distinction, harmony, maintainability, and cleanliness. This study also finds several important implications for local governments and tourism practitioners in maintaining the economic and social attributes of a tourism destination. This study is expected to serve as the basis for future studies related to the design of urban areas and other heritage tourism sites.

Retail change in a context of an overtourism city. The case of Lisbon

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Guimarães
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Historic City

Purpose The excess of tourism in some destinations has led to the discussion of overtourism. One of the sectors that most interacts with tourism is retail, a key element in the experience lived by tourists. The purpose of this paper is to analyse how retail evolves in a context of an overtourism city, how it relates with touristification and what are the elements that best characterise such evolution and relation. Design/methodology/approach This research is based on a case study, using the main historic city centre of Lisbon for that purpose. Fieldwork was developed by the author to collect information about the commercial fabric and its main characteristics. Findings The findings show a clear adaptation of the commercial fabric of the analysed area to the tourism industry. Furthermore, the author unfolded that the change of retail is towards a consumption environment based on leisure, involving the adaptation of the public space into terraces, and on the thematisation of stores, using elements seen as “authentically” Portuguese, which bestows on theses spaces a sort of certification of quality and authenticity. Originality/value The mere reference to the homogenisation of the retail fabric is too simple to explain the richness and variety of elements imbedded in the process of retail change in a context of excessive tourism and touristification. In this paper, the author produced novel knowledge by analysing the elements that embody the evolution of retail in such a context.

scholarly journals THE INTEGRATION OF 3D SPATIAL AND NON – SPATIAL COMPONENT FOR STRATA MANAGEMENT

2019 ◽  
Vol XLII-4/W16 ◽  
pp. 417-424
Author(s):  
F. Mohd Hanafi ◽  
M. I. Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Data Model ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Large Population ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Integration Model ◽  
Land Administration ◽  
Large Populations ◽  
Conceptual Data

Abstract. Nowadays, due to rapid development and large populations especially in urban areas has caused indoor spaces of buildings becomes bigger and more complex. In most developing countries, the needs of advance cadastre systems and land administration are vital due to rapid development and large population area especially in the city centre such as Kuala Lumpur. More populations have caused more limited space, which explains the need to build a more vertical building. Due to this, an efficient strata management are required for managing the strata title. A study of country-based profile on cadastre domain standard has been conceptualized for land administration in Malaysia that allows integration of 2D and 3D representation of spatial units with supports of both formal and informal Rights, Restrictions and Responsibilities (RRR). Since this research used Malaysia cadastre management as a case study, the proposed model for the Malaysian land administration country profile was embedded in the integration model. Meanwhile, a new working item proposal for LADM Edition II has been introduced on the idea of encoding further integration of land administration with an existing standard such as IndoorGML. Hence, this paper proposes a conceptual model on the integration between both legal space (indoor) and legal object using LADM Edition II and IndoorGML standards for strata purposes. Three objectives had been recognized to achieve the aim of the study. Firstly, to identify the integration of spatial components and non-spatial components for strata management. The second is to develop a conceptual data model for strata with the integration of LADM Edition II and IndoorGML and lastly, is to develop a prototype to validate the proposed conceptual data model. Thus, the development of the conceptual model may provide insights or ideas for future work and land administration on strata purposes.

Digital Urban Art in Historic City Centers in Times of Democratic Transition

2021 ◽  
pp. 172-190
Author(s):  
Yasmine Tira
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Transition ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Urban Art ◽  
Urban Heritage ◽  
Historical Sites ◽  
Historic City

In the present ultra-numeric era, urban heritage faces a threat of losing local identity in some places around the globe. This fact creates a perplexity in how any local community perceives and uses information communication technologies (ICTs) in historical sites. However, several historic city centres are still giving their visitors a charming ‘experience of place'. Combining the tangible urban heritage with ephemeral urban digital art and original visual experiences creates a novice way of expressing public spaces. The argument here confirms the importance of the acceptance of democratic values during times of democratic transition. The way that the areas of cultural heritage are characterised in the current digitised world presents ephemeral nightlife experiences, an ensemble of the expressionist simulacrum. A brief overview of the relation between urban heritage and ephemeral urban art events is reflected through the lens of digital urban art. Given the results from the case of the Medina of Tunis, the festival's lighting in the historic city centre can provide a charming atmosphere.

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