Creating and Managing a Radically Edited Cultural Landscape: The Blue Ridge Parkway in the United States

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI:10.1177/24559296231164727

P. Kapp

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Abstract

This article explores how a contrived heritage tourism landscape was created, how its identity was marketed, and how it has influenced the culture of the contiguous region in which it resides in. During the Great Depression, the designers from the U.S. National Park Service manipulated the authenticity of the indigenous architecture and radically edited the mountain landscape in Virginia and North Carolina to create an institutionalized super-scenic motorway—the Blue Ridge Parkway (BRP). Spanning over four hundred miles, the BRP promotes early American mountain culture. As it approaches its centennial year of being authorized by the U.S. Congress, this recreational road continues to be a popular heritage site and supports the regional economy through heritage tourism. However, does the planning of the parkway and the management of its identity convey the region’s historic mountain culture or has it always been a created landscape for tourism that is based on a formal construct of a heritage idea, created by its designers? And for the American tourist experiencing the BRP, what is more important: the authenticity of the regional heritage or the authenticity of the contrived artefact simply put, the scenic road?

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创造和管理一个彻底编辑的文化景观:美国的蓝岭公园大道

本文探讨了一个人为的遗产旅游景观是如何被创造出来的，它的身份是如何被营销的，以及它是如何影响它所在的邻近地区的文化的。在大萧条时期，来自美国国家公园管理局的设计师们操纵了本土建筑的真实性，并从根本上编辑了弗吉尼亚州和北卡罗来纳州的山地景观，创造了一条制度化的超级风景高速公路——蓝岭公园大道(BRP)。BRP横跨400多英里，促进了早期美国山地文化的发展。随着这条休闲公路获得美国国会批准的一百周年纪念日的临近，它仍然是一个受欢迎的遗产景点，并通过遗产旅游支持地区经济。然而，公园大道的规划和对其身份的管理是否传达了该地区历史悠久的山地文化，或者它一直是一个由设计师创造的基于遗产理念的正式构建的旅游景观?对于体验BRP的美国游客来说，哪个更重要:是地区遗产的真实性，还是人工制品的真实性，简单地说，就是风景优美的道路?

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.