Strategies of Landscape Planning in Peri-Urban Rural Tourism: A Comparison between Two Villages in China

Abstract

Landscapes have multiple functions relating to natural preservation and cultural inheritance, which are fundamental factors for tourist development. Particularly in villages, rural tourism is primarily based on the rural landscape. However, peri-urban villages face complex conflicts of urbanization and ruralism, in which landscapes are dynamic and need synergistic plans and management. Thus, this research contributes to a better understanding of comprehensive landscape planning integrating natural and cultural dimensions in peri-urban villages. Taking as a comparison studies in two peri-urban villages, Heshu village and Pu’an village in the Yangtze River Delta in China, the research mainly adopted qualitative methods of document analysis, in-depth interviews and field observation. We found that local features and interactions with nature are both stressed in the village landscape plans but with different strategies. Firstly, Heshu village’s landscape plan intends to reproduce eight scenes described in famous local poetry, while Pu’an village’s plan intends to develop local traditional customs of bulrush craft. Secondly, the detailed landscape design of green-way and blue-way systems in Heshu village is people-oriented, while landscape design in Pu’an village is experience-oriented in relation to creative tourism. Finally, it is essential to consider both the interests of local villagers and tourists in the process of identifying, preserving and enhancing the locality of rural landscapes.

Comprehensive Evaluation and Quantitative Research on the Living Protection of Traditional Villages from the Perspective of “Production–Living–Ecology”

“…Preliminary screening of indicators: Analyze and sort out relevant evaluation indicators for village economic production [19][20][21][22][23], human settlement environment [15,[24][25][26][27], village ecological and cultural value [28][29][30], diversity of traditional village [31][32][33][34], policy efficiency index [35,36], and adaptability of rural tourism [17,32,[37][38][39] from available literature. Finally, a total of 52 evaluation indicators were selected according to the objectives and principles mentioned above.…”

Developing a Health-Spatial Indicator System for a Healthy City in Small and Midsized Cities

“…The development of SMCs is primarily influenced by their place in the regional transportation plan (e.g., highways) [ 20 , 21 ]. Some small village-like cities are facing a shortage of sanitation facilities [ 22 ]. Although SMCs are facing competition from big cities, especially in population attractiveness [ 19 , 23 ], a previous study has revealed that the key attractive factors in big cities, such as diversity, density, and entertainment, have a much weaker effect in SMCs [ 24 ].…”

Research on Village Planning and Rural Architectural Design Based on Discrete Dynamic Modeling Technology

“…In response to the call of rural revitalization strategy, many researchers have put forward the concept of village construction based on a dynamic programming algorithm [1]. Facing the ownership of village residents, the corresponding planning should follow the villagers' own wishes for improvement [2]. e completion of village planning is the basis and guarantee for the construction and management of rural areas and is conducive to promoting the construction of a new socialist countryside [3].…”