New Networking Perspectives towards Mediterranean Territorial Cohesion: The Multidimensional Approach of Cultural Routes

Cassalia, Giuseppina; Tramontana, Carmen; Ventura, Claudia

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2016.05.371

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“…The impact of globalisation, especially due to the massive flows of people, is significant [12][13][14][15], especially in the case of the Mediterranean Basin, with urban areas facing great challenges. Local customs and traditions are fading away and alienation is a result of the new lifestyle.…”

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“…They can lead to the abandonment of traditional values and practices, and to the dismantling of the economic basis on which the survival of indigenous cultures depends on, while also producing an impact on the identity at local, regional, and macro-regional scale [9][10][11]. Especially in the case of the Mediterranean Basin, the impact of globalisation due to the massive flows of people is significant [12][13][14][15], with urban areas facing great challenges. The fact that the Mediterranean is undoubtedly one of the leading tourist regions in the world [16][17][18][19] introduces another great challenge.…”

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Preservation of the Mediterranean Identity: An Intra-City Analysis Towards a Macro-Regional Approach for the Characterisation of Urban Sustainability

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Globalisation combined with high urbanisation trends affects not only the traditional pillars of sustainability (environment, society, and economy), but also local identity. Customs and traditions are fading away and alienation is the result of new lifestyles deriving mainly from high interaction between locals and foreigners (focus on tourism). Facing the challenge of characterising urban sustainability, reflection on special characteristics of the urban fabric that are affected (spatial dimension of sustainability) is not always considered. Even though a lot of research is dedicated to the characterisation of urban areas’ sustainability, the element of local, regional, and macro-regional identity seems not to be systematically incorporated. This work attempts to develop and test a methodological framework to identify and prioritise the common symbolic elements that constitute the identity of a group of cities and that need to be sustained. The study focuses on the Euro-Mediterranean region. A survey is addressed to 64 scientists from five cities: Dubrovnik, Genoa, Rhodes, Valencia, and Venice. “Urban structure” is revealed as the most important element that constitutes the “Mediterranean identity”. Moreover, the level of threat deriving from mass tourism on the “Mediterranean identity” is estimated. The survey provides insight into the definition of the spatial dimension of sustainability and the determination/weighting of the case-specific component of an integrated urban sustainability assessment tool.

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Preservation of the Mediterranean Identity: An Intra-City Analysis Towards a Macro-Regional Approach for the Characterisation of Urban Sustainability

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“…This paper addresses the topic of the importance of using and reviving cultural routes, focusing on aspects of spatial, economic, and social sustainability, as well as cultural goals, and to be adopted as a catalyst for the revival of historical areas, by addressing the issue of cultural heritage in general, and cultural routes in particular, as a dynamic asset in city revitalization processes, beyond looking at heritage as a fixed archaeological component in sustainability development, which confirmed by ICOMOS directives [2]. The study adopted a multidisciplinary approach, as it specializes in the sustainability of the historical environment, the cultural routes in Kerbala represent a complex system, where a set of ingredients contribute to its creation, and the elements are studied through [27]:…”

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Reviving the Cultural Route and Its Role in the Sustainability of Historical Areas - Kerbala as a Case Study

Al-Jaberi¹,

Hasan²

2022

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Cultural heritage represents one of the most important resources for development processes, and cultural routes as cultural elements have the potential to revitalize and develop the historical area sustainably by stimulating cultural tourism. One aspect of cultural tourism is to provide cultural itineraries for visitors that enable them to explore the cultural heritage of the host region. The literature in this field has dealt with the potential of heritage in general in providing meaning and value to the environmental, and socio-economic aspects that form the foundations of sustainable development. This paper uses a multidisciplinary approach to study the possibility of designing and reviving cultural routes as catalysts for historical revitalization. Taking the Cultural Routes in (Karbala) as an example, the network and node perspective model are adopted to determine two historic tourism routes in this region. And it turns out that the preservation and protection policies for heritage must be integrated manner with the development processes, and to achieve a balance between the aspects of sustainable development and emphasize their interrelation and interaction with the historical environment.

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“…Protection that is integrated with cross-regional and cross-cultural heritage has become an international consensus, and the scope of protection has shifted from settlement to corridor [30,31]. Corridor scale networks are becoming increasingly important for the sustainable development management of society, economy, and culture [32,33]. Since traditional villages are formed in the same geographical environment with similar economic, cultural, and ecological backgrounds, the construction of landscape networks can be conducive to their sustainable management and protection.…”

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Traditional Village Landscape Integration Based on Social Network Analysis: A Case Study of the Yuan River Basin in South-Western China

2021

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Traditional rural Chinese landscapes have fragmented from the impact of rapid urbanisation and modernisation. Aiming to address this tough issue, the Chinese central government proposed the Traditional Villages Project, which is top-down traditional village management and conservation policy. A traditional village landscape network (TVLN) can be used to integrate rural landscapes and ensure the unified protection of natural and cultural landscapes. This paper aimed to establish a method of building a TVLN through three main steps: the calculation of the connection strength of traditional villages, calculation of the tie strength between traditional villages, and establishment of a TVLN. The results demonstrated the rich layers and stable structure of the Yuan River Basin’s TVLN, but there was a hidden risk in its stability due to the existence of tangent and isolated points. This TVLN quantitatively examined the characteristics and relationships of traditional villages and provided data support for the approval of traditional villages and protection policy formulation. A TVLN can support the overall conservation of traditional village landscapes, enhance their comprehensive value, and promote the sustainable management and cross-regional protection of traditional village landscapes.

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New Networking Perspectives towards Mediterranean Territorial Cohesion: The Multidimensional Approach of Cultural Routes

Cited by 7 publications

References 5 publications

Preservation of the Mediterranean Identity: An Intra-City Analysis Towards a Macro-Regional Approach for the Characterisation of Urban Sustainability

Preservation of the Mediterranean Identity: An Intra-City Analysis Towards a Macro-Regional Approach for the Characterisation of Urban Sustainability

Reviving the Cultural Route and Its Role in the Sustainability of Historical Areas - Kerbala as a Case Study

Traditional Village Landscape Integration Based on Social Network Analysis: A Case Study of the Yuan River Basin in South-Western China

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