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Relationship Between Landscape Character and Public Preferences in Urban Landscapes: A Case Study from the East–West Mountain Region in Wuhan, China

open access: yesLand
The East–West Mountain Region (EWMR) of Wuhan is a vital natural and cultdural asset, characterized by its scenic nature landscapes and rich historical and cultural heritage.
Xingyuan Li   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Management of cultural heritage areas in rural-urban interface zones in Lithuania: the elaboration of provisions of the National Landscape Management Plan

open access: yesJournal of Sustainable Architecture and Civil Engineering, 2017
The management of rural-urban interface areas must take into account their local peculiarities including heritage features and, vice versa, the management of cultural heritage in the rurban zones should consider the unusual dynamic and heterogeneous character of these areas.
Indrė Gražulevičiūtė - Vileniškė   +1 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Magnetizing Neighborhoods Through Amateur Arts Performance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Outlines the Arts and Cultural Indicators in Community Building Project's findings on how amateur, informal arts activity improves a community's desirability, social integration, and quality of life as measured by population, test scores, and crime ...
D. Garth Taylor
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Historic Preservation and its Cultured Despisers: Reflections on the Contemporary Role of Preservation Law in Urban Development [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The past years have seen widely noticed critiques of historic preservation by “one of our leading urban economists,” Edward Glaeser, and by star architect Rem Koolhaas.
Byrne, J. Peter
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Spatial Compatibility of Landscape Character State Assessment and Development Projects at County Scale: The Case of Songzi City, China

open access: yesLand
Rural landscape character assessment (LCA) is significant for identifying and understanding rural landscapes and maintaining the cultural connotations of the rural vernacular.
Yunong Wu
doaj   +1 more source

Operatively White?: Exploring the Significance of Race and Class Through the Paradox of Black Middle-Classness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The black–white paradigm has been the crucial paradigm in racial geography of land use, housing and development. Yet it is worthwhile to consider that, in this context, distinctions based on race are accompanied by a powerful, racialized discourse of ...
McFarlane, Audrey G.
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Chapter Integrated Coastal Zone Management of Natura 2000 and cultural heritage sites in Calabrian coastal landscape (Southern Italy) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This study shows the link connecting natural and cultural goods in the coastal landscape of Calabria (Southern Italy), considering seaboard and human impact risk conditions. In fact, Calabria has 58 Natura 2000 sites located on seaboard areas within a length of 300 meters from coast and 63 cultural heritage sites of which 42.9% coincides with the ...
Cantasano, Nicola   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Rural landscape and cultural routes: a multicriteria spatial classification method tested on an Italian case study

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural Engineering, 2015
Europe is characterised by a rich net of itineraries that during the Middle Ages were taken by pilgrims head toward the holy places of Christianity. In Italy the main pilgrimage route is the Via Francigena (the road that comes from France), which starts ...
Irene Diti   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Recreational-Geomorphological Zoning of the North-Eastern Caucasus

open access: yesRussian Journal of Earth Sciences
The article presents the results of zoning of the territory of the North-Eastern Caucasus based on the analysis of geomorphological features and their influence on the organization of recreation.
Zaburaeva Khava   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Building knowledge for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander remote tourism: lessons from comparable tourism initiatives around the world [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This report aims to build knowledge about what issues Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people may need to consider in remote tourism by reviewing, compiling and drawing insights from comparable tourism initiatives around the world.The report is ...
Damien Jacobsen
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