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Women, Leadership, and Mosque's Cultures: Indonesian Heritage in New York City

open access: yes, 2016
This paper examines the use of social, religious and cultural heritage for community building and mosque participation by Indonesian Muslim communities in New York City and its impact on women’s leadership in al-Hikmah mosque and their production of ...
Anwar, Etin; Islamic State University Bandung
core   +1 more source

Botanic and heritage gardens as living laboratories in the age of the polycrisis

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Societal Impact Statement Cities face intertwined crises of climate, biodiversity loss and social disconnection. We show how botanic and heritage gardens can help address these challenges as living laboratories to generate place‐based evidence and public engagement.
Kevin Frediani
wiley   +1 more source

Research on the construction of intangible cultural heritage corridors in the Yellow River Basin based on geographic information system (GIS) technology and the minimum cumulative resistance (MCR) model

open access: yesHeritage Science
Objectively and accurately identifying the spatial structure and protection scope of intangible cultural heritage and constructing intangible cultural heritage corridors are crucial for the comprehensive systematic protection of intangible cultural ...
Xiaobin Li   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tangible and Intangible Landscape Elements in the Adaptive Reuse of Historic Railway Corridors: Landscape Perception and Preference Along the Taichung Green Corridor 1908, Taiwan

open access: yesLand
Cities worldwide are converting decommissioned railway corridors into linear parks, yet designers lack guidance on which heritage elements to retain and how to combine them with new interventions.
Kuo-Wei Hsu, Jen-Chih Chao, Hao-Wen Ko
doaj   +1 more source

The Genetic Legacy of Cretan Landrace Grapevines and Their Relationship to the Southern Levant

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Grapes are more than an agricultural crop; they are a vital part of human history, economy, and culture. Yet the origins of many traditional varieties remain unclear. By studying the genetics of Cretan grapes, we discovered that they are a “genetic mosaic”—combining local lineages with those from the Southern Levant and Eastern Europe.
Meirav Meiri   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Two centuries of Begonia exploration in the Philippines: Progress and challenges associated with a megadiverse genus in the Global South

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Megadiverse genera represent the highest concentration of plant diversity, but these plants are also located primarily in countries in the Global South where huge gaps in botanical knowledge remain. This study summarized two centuries of Begonia collection records in the Philippines to show how historical events coincide with collection and taxonomic ...
Mark Angelo C. Bucay   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Construction of Landscape Heritage Corridors in Ethnic Minority Villages Based on LCA-MSPA-MCR Framework: A Case Study of the Nanling Ethnic Corridor Region in China

open access: yesBuildings
To address the challenges of the loss of ethnic cultural carriers and the spatial fragmentation of landscape management due to rural population shrinkage, constructing heritage corridors has emerged as a crucial strategy for integrating fragmented ...
Xiaoxiang Tang, Junxiang Mei, Ye Tang
doaj   +1 more source

Discussion and Reflection on Several Core Issues in the Grand Canal Heritage Conservation Planning Under the Background of Application for World Heritage [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2015
At the turn of the century, a series of new heritage concepts have appeared in the area of international cultural heritage protection, such as cultural landscape, cultural route, heritage corridor, heritage canal, which presents the development of ...
D. Yao   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

From Plot to Block: Participatory Land Use for Climate‐Resilient Detached Housing in Finland

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how urban planning in Finland is adapting to climate change, focusing on the practical challenges planners face in single‐family housing areas. It draws on participatory workshops with municipal planners in Pori and Joensuu, where three planning tools—green factor metrics, impermeable surface limits, and the 3–30‐300 ...
Hossam Hewidy
wiley   +1 more source

A Study on the Spatiotemporal Aggregation and Corridor Distribution Characteristics of Cultural Heritage: The Case of Fuzhou, China

open access: yesBuildings
Fuzhou is an important city on the southeast coast of China with rich cultural heritage resources, and it is a national historical and cultural city in China. The main purposes of this study are the following: 1.
Jiahao Zhang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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