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The historic landscape of the Mendip Hills

open access: yes, 2015
When travelling north-east across the Somerset Levels and Moors the eye is drawn to the dark mass of the Mendip Hills, a Carboniferous Limestone ridge which rises abruptly from the flatness of its surroundings.
Jamieson, Elaine
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Valuing landscape preferences with perceptive and monetary approaches: two case studies in Italy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This thesis presents two distinct participative approaches, qualitative the first and monetary the second to analyse people preferences for landscape management.
Vecchiato, Daniel
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Morphological Evolution and Socio-Cultural Transformation in Historic Urban Areas: A Historic Urban Landscape Approach from Luoyang, China

open access: yesBuildings
The historical authenticity of historic urban areas has been compromised, and community cohesion has declined, necessitating comprehensive methods to systematically identify spatial textures and socio-cultural transformation characteristics.
Xiaozhen Zhang   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Image of a Sacred City: Portraying Sacred values of Historic Urban Landscape of Sylhet city, Bangladesh

open access: yesProceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism-ICCAUA, 2023
The Historic Urban Landscape Approach by UNESCO presents a new perspective on urban conservation by visualizing cities as a living cultural landscape, changing the traditional idea of the "Historic city” concept. Like many Indian sub continental cities,
Ferdous Rahman   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Urban landscape ecology and its evaluation : a review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Urban landscapes exhibit combinations of environmental features that are rarely encountered in non-urban settings resulting in habitat types, habitat associations and vegetation communities not found elsewhere.
Young, Christopher   +3 more
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Traditional Thoughts and Modern Development of the Historical Urban Landscape in China: Lessons Learned from the Example of Pingyao Historical City

open access: yesLand, 2022
In the past 40 years, China has undergone a rapid urbanization process which has led to a significant contradiction between the desire to develop modern urban spaces and the need to protect historic urban sites.
Xinpeng Li   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Historical Cultural Layers and Sustainable Design Art Models for Architectural Engineering—Took Public Art Proposal for the Tainan Bus Station Construction Project as an Example

open access: yesBuildings, 2022
The concept of “historic buildings” is cultural with evolutionary characteristics, mainly constructed in the category of historical culture and people’s living settlements.
Wan-Fang Liu   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Urban Heritage Conservation and Modern Urban Development from the Perspective of the Historic Urban Landscape Approach: A Case Study of Suzhou

open access: yesLand, 2022
Suzhou is one of China’s model cities due to its economic development in recent decades. Although the city deserves recognition for its efforts in urban heritage conservation, the current preservation strategy only targets the ancient city and neglects ...
Jun Jiang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Space Compositional Aspects Regarding the Importance of Trees in the Urban Landscape

open access: yesPlants, 2023
Individual trees and tree compositions provide a wide range of cultural ecosystem services, including playing a key role in defining urban character. In Hungary, urban landscape protection tools have recently been expanded, bringing the topic into the ...
László Zoltán Nádasy   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of “Intelligent Utilization Scenarios with Historic Urban Landscape Approach” in the Wetland City of Bandar-e Khamir [PDF]

open access: yesگردشگری فرهنگ
The rapid development in historical cities and the increasing complexity of urban functions in recent decades have led to significant changes in the historical areas of cities and have posed challenges to the balance between conservation and development.
Kosar Qolami Qadi
doaj   +1 more source

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