Assessing the sustainable development of the historic urban landscape through local indicators. Lessons from a Mexican World Heritage City

Guzman, Paloma

doi:10.1016/j.culher.2020.06.017

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“…Another interesting approach for categorising the historic city is provided by Guzmán et al (2020) [12]. This proposal summarises a series of indicators and their corresponding units of measure, based on a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis designed in the context of the sustainable development of the historic city (Table 2).…”

Section: Social Tangible/intangible Ecological Tangible/intangiblementioning

confidence: 99%

Characterisation of the Historic Urban Landscape through the Aristotelian Four Causes: Towards Comprehensive GIS Databases

Eudave

Ferreira

2021

Remote Sensing

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The Historic Urban Landscape provides a basis to comprehensively study the city, considering the numerous agents and stakeholders involved in the urban phenomenon. However, the characterisation of the city is challenging, due to the numerous ways of reading and using the city. Although several theoretical approaches address the process of documenting the city, there is still a gap related to the design of a generalised, holistic, and comprehensive framework. This article aims to contribute to this purpose by discussing the concept of the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) and its implications for the characterisation of the urban phenomena. The Aristotelian theory of the causes is proposed here as a suitable approach for the description, characterisation, and analysis of virtually any entity by first discussing its theoretical basis and then testing it in a real building located in the historical city, Guimarães, Portugal. A set of tools related to Geographic Information System databases are comprehensively explored during the implementation process of the approach, allowing to identify and discuss a set of limitations, challenges, and opportunities.

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Section: Social Tangible/intangible Ecological Tangible/intangiblementioning

confidence: 99%

Characterisation of the Historic Urban Landscape through the Aristotelian Four Causes: Towards Comprehensive GIS Databases

Eudave

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2021

Remote Sensing

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“…The greater this diversity, the more advanced can a system become, which is conducive to biodiversity and ecological stability. In combination with improving visual attractiveness and cultural identity, it can become a basis for creating sustainable cities [7,82,83]. The concepts of green infrastructure or even urban ecological networks can also be applied here [84,85].…”

Section: Greenery In the Townsmentioning

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Site-Specific Determinants and Remains of Medieval City Fortifications as the Potential for Creating Urban Greenery Systems Based on the Example of Historical Towns of the Opole Voivodeship

Łakomy

2021

Sustainability

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The article discusses the natural and historic heritage of medieval towns in the Opole Silesia region in the context of their ability to take advantage of their potential for sustainable development, especially in tourism. The chosen environmental, urban, architectural, and landscape factors were compared through this aspect and subjected to a multidimensional comparative analysis. The research studies applied mostly archival materials, contemporary topographic maps, statistical data, and both landscape as well as urban field studies. As a result, the studies indicated that the natural conditions of the locations, the preservation level of the urban system along with its development trends, and the areas of the old fortifications with their accompanying greenery constitute these towns’ very value and identity. As they combine elements of nature and culture, they may serve as the basis for development of tourism, which is likely to contribute to the social and economic revitalization of the region itself. What may play a major role in the quest for sustainable development are the urban greenery systems to be designed based on former fortification areas, city greenery, and natural environmental resources, which have been integral elements of these towns over many past centuries.

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“…Based on the SD, the semantic intensity correlation analysis matrix of climate change and natural, economic, and cultural systems was constructed. Through the analysis of the long-term correlation analysis among the four groups of data and the comparison of the correlation coefficient changes in multiple cycles [54], the resilience change process of the Yudai Trench historic urban landscape was further analyzed in a quantitative manner, and the correlation between the different systems was explored (more data can be found in Appendix C).…”

Section: Correlation Analysis Of Climate Change and Natural Economic And Cultural Systemsmentioning

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To Act or Not to Act: Are Natural Landscapes a Key Force in the Resilience of Historic Urban Landscapes?

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Ignoring the function of natural landscapes in the rapid development of urbanization, and especially in the conservation of historic urban landscapes, is still obvious today, and this has caused a large decrease in natural space, loss of habitats, and an increase in disasters. The resilience of a whole city and parts of it, such as historic urban areas where the historical process of man and nature have been recorded, as well as the interaction between nature, economy, and culture, is not strong enough to maintain the stability of urban ecosystems. It is misleading to think that the resilience can be built in a historic urban area without a natural landscape. We question whether this is true. Using a semantic differential analysis method from a historical perspective, this paper aims to answer this question through research on the correlation between resilience and man and nature through a case study of Yudai Trench historic urban landscape in Guangzhou, a historic urban area with 1000 years of history. A total of 212 pieces of evidence were extracted from 59 historical sources. The results showed that the cultural and economic conditions were in the same step and cycles as nature, which were influenced strongly by climate change, and that the natural landscape has a correlation on and is a dominant force in the resilience of historic urban landscapes.

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Assessing the sustainable development of the historic urban landscape through local indicators. Lessons from a Mexican World Heritage City

Cited by 25 publications

References 28 publications

Characterisation of the Historic Urban Landscape through the Aristotelian Four Causes: Towards Comprehensive GIS Databases

Characterisation of the Historic Urban Landscape through the Aristotelian Four Causes: Towards Comprehensive GIS Databases

Site-Specific Determinants and Remains of Medieval City Fortifications as the Potential for Creating Urban Greenery Systems Based on the Example of Historical Towns of the Opole Voivodeship

To Act or Not to Act: Are Natural Landscapes a Key Force in the Resilience of Historic Urban Landscapes?

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