Landscape-based Heritage Research and Practice

Abstract

As a modern concept of cultural practice, “heritage” reflects the ways through which different nation-states understand and construct their own values. Accompanied with the emergency and development of “cultural landscape” concept, the relevance between heritage and landscape has greatly changed how people recognize heritage values, and cultural landscape becomes a specific type of heritage in related research and practice. From the holism perspective of Historic Urban Landscape, practices attempt to interpret the values of heritage by regarding landscape as medium, which helps integrate heritage resources into the overall planning of urban development. From the diversity perspective, the emphasis of the relevance between heritage and landscape promotes the academic system construction on landscape-based heritage research and practice. Heritage landscape research in digital era sees promising potential, meanwhile needs more efforts to address basic technique problems.